Species
Begonalia hydra (Distant, 1908)
Descendants and synonyms
Nomenclature (6)
- Tettigoniella hydra Distant, 1908a: 520.
Lectotype; male; 8cb1e1ad-e2f4-49ad-ba18-19d4d69168c6; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Peru, Rosenberg, 1906
- Cicadella inscriptula Osborn, 1926b: 213.
- Cicadella inscriptula Osborn, 1926 (subjective synonym of Tettigoniella hydra Distant, 1908) in Young, 1977a: 174.
- Begonalia hydra (Distant, 1908) in Young, 1977a: 174.
Nomenclature references (5)
- Distant, W.L. (1908a) Rhynchotal notes. -- XLIV. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (Ser. 8), 1, 515–531.
- Osborn, H. (1926b) Neotropical Homoptera of the Carnegie Museum. Part 5. Report upon the collections in the subfamily Cicadellinae, with descriptions of new species. Annals of the Carnegie Museum, 16, 155–248 + pls. 11–16.
- Young, D.A., Jr. (1965c) Cicadelline types in the British Museum (Natural History) (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology, 17(4), 163–199.
- Young, D.A., Jr. (1977a) Taxonomic study of the Cicadellinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Part 2. New World Cicadellini and the genus Cicadella. Technical Bulletin of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, 239, 1–1135.
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:
after the Lernaean Hydra (Greek: Λερναῖα Ὕδρα), in Greek mythology, more often known simply as the Hydra, a serpentine water monster
Stats
| Taxon | Valid names | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Extant | Fossil | Invalid | Total |
| Species | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 |