Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (3)

  • Umjaba Distant, 1904b: 298.

    type species by original designation Platypleura evanescens Butler, 1882

  • Umbaja [sic] Distant, 1904 in Kato, 1956a: 61.
  • Umbaja [sic] Distant, 1904 (misspelling of Umjaba Distant, 1904) in Kato, 1956a: 61.

Type

Platypleura evanescens Butler, 1882 type species by original designation of Umjaba Distant, 1904

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

after Umjaba, a character of the book "Incwadi Yami or Twenty years' personal experience in South Africa" by J.W. Matthews, 1887

Nomenclature references (2)

  • Distant, W.L. (1904b) Rhynchotal notes. -- XXVI. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (Ser. 7), 14, 293–303.
  • Kato, M. (1956a) The Biology of the Cicadas. Bulletin of the Cicadidae Museum, 10, 1–319. [in Japanese]

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Rank Total Valid Invalid
genus211
species321