Habitus, dorsal view: Ladoffa sp. @ Costa Rica, by Gernot Kunz. (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view: Ladoffa sp. @ Costa Rica, by Gernot Kunz. (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view: Ladoffa arcuata @ Costa Rica, by Steve Marshall. (Observation).

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (3)

  • Ladoffa Young, 1977a: 339.

    type species by original designation Tettigonia ignota Walker, 1851

  • Ladofa [sic] Young, 1977 in Keil & Lozada, 2021: 29.
  • Ladofa [sic] Young, 1977 (misspelling of Ladoffa Young, 1977) in Keil & Lozada, 2021: 29.

Type

Tettigonia ignota Walker, 1851 type species by original designation of Ladoffa Young, 1977

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

in honor of Sonia Ladoff

Nomenclature references (2)

  • Keil, C.B. & Lozada, P.W. (2021) Cicadellinae of Ecuador and Cicadellidae of Galápagos. Neotropical Biodiversity, 7(1), 23–38. [2020] https://doi.org/10.1080/23766808.2020.1863758
  • 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.

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Names
Rank Total Valid Invalid
genus211
species624220