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Hortensia similis (Walker, 1851)

Habitus, dorsal view: !! display not done !! on Hortensia similis (Walker, 1851): Specimen from Parque Nacional do Itatiaia, Southeastern Brazil, by C. M. F. Silva 2014. (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view: !! display not done !! on Hortensia similis (Walker, 1851): Specimen from Parque Nacional do Itatiaia, Southeastern Brazil, by C. M. F. Silva 2014. (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view: !! display not done !! on Hortensia similis (Walker, 1851): Specimen from Parque Nacional do Itatiaia, Southeastern Brazil, by C. M. F. Silva 2014. (Observation).

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (15)

  • Tettigonia similis Walker, 1851b: 769. (valid in Metcalf, 1965a: 431)

    Holotype; female; 21; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK);

  • Helochara communis similis (Walker, 1851) in Signoret, 1853d: 178.
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  • Hortensia similis (Walker, 1851) in Metcalf & Bruner, 1936a: 930.
  • Cicadella cuneatula Osborn, 1926 (subjective synonym of Tettigonia similis Walker, 1851) in Young, 1977a: 811.

Nomenclature references (15)

  • Fowler, W.W. (1900c) Order Rhynchota. Suborder Hemiptera-Homoptera. (Continued). In Biologia Centrali-Americana; or, Contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America. Porter. London. Vol. 2, pp. 273–280.
  • Heidemann, O. & Osborn, H. (1917a) VIII. Rhynchota of the Isle of Pines. Annals of the Carnegie Museum, 11(3-4), 346–355.
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  • Lethierry, L.F. (1881b) Liste des Hémiptères recueillis par M. Delauney à la Guadeloupe, la Martinique et Saint-Barthelemy. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique, 25, 8–19.
  • Metcalf, Z.P. & Bruner, S.C. (1936a) The Cicadellidae of Cuba. The Journal of Agriculture of the University of Puerto Rico, 20, 915–979.
  • Metcalf, Z.P. (1965a) General catalogue of the Homoptera. Fascicle VI. Cicadelloidea. Part 1. Tettigellidae. Washington, D.C., USDA, II+730 pp.
  • Osborn, H. (1909a) Notes on Guatemalan Hemiptera with descriptions of a few new species. The Ohio Naturalist, 9(5), 457–466.
  • 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.
  • Signoret, V.A. (1853d) Revue critique du groupe des Tettigonides et de la tribu des Cercopides. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie pure et appliquée. (Sér. 2), 5, 173–184. [separate paged 1-12]
  • Signoret, V.A. (1854a) Revue iconographique des Tettigonides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, (3 série), 2(1), 5–28 + pls. 1–2.
  • Signoret, V.A. (1855) Revue iconographique des Tettigonides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, (3 série), 2(4), 717–732 + pl. 21. [1854]
  • Van Duzee, E.P. (1894a) A catalogue of the described Jassoidea of North America. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 21, 245–317.
  • Van Duzee, E.P. (1909a) Observation on some Hemiptera taken in Florida in the spring of 1908. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. Buffalo, N. y, 9, 149–230.
  • Walker, F. (1851b) List of the specimens of homopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part III. London: Edward Newman, Vol. 3, 637–907.
  • 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:

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