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Genus

Ciccus Latreille, 1829

Habitus, dorsal view on Ciccus Latreille, 1829: male: Ciccus adspersus, French Guyana, NCSU. (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view on Ciccus Latreille, 1829: male: Ciccus adspersus, French Guyana, NCSU. (Observation).

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (8)

  • Ciccus Latreille, 1829a: 221.

    type species by subsequent designation Cicada adspersa Fabricius, 1803 in Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843a: 572

  • Cicus [sic] Latreille, 1829 in Percheron, 1832b: pl.48.
  • Coelopola Stål, 1869 (objective synonym of Ciccus Latreille, 1829) in Metcalf, 1952a: 228.
  • Ciccus Latreille, 1829 in Dmitriev, 2026

Nomenclature references (8)

  • Amyot, C.J.-B. & Audinet-Serville, J.G. (1843a) Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Hémiptères. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret. Paris, lxxvi + 676 pp. + 12 pls.
  • Dallas, W.S. (1870a) Rhynchota. The Zoological Record, 6, 472–499.
  • Dmitriev, D.A. (2026) Personal communication.
  • Latreille, P.A. (1829a) Hémiptères, Homoptères (Homoptera). In Le règne animal distribué d’après son organisation, pour servir de base à l’histoire naturelle des animaux et d’introduction à l’anatomie comparée. Par M. le Baron Cuvier. Avec figures, dessinées d’après nature. Déterville, Paris. Vol. 5, pp. 209–224. [xxiv + 556 pp.]
  • Metcalf, Z.P. (1952a) New names in the Homoptera. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 42, 226–231.
  • 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.
  • Percheron, A.R. (1832b) Cephalèle. Cephalelus. Percheron. Magasin de Zoologie, 1, 1–2 + pl. 48.
  • Stål, C. (1869a) Hemiptera Fabriciana. Fabricianska Hemipterarter, efter de i Köpenhamn och Kiel förvarade typexemplaren granskade och beskrifne. 2. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar, 8(1), 1–130.

Type

type species by subsequent designation of Ciccus Latreille, 1829

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Greek: κίκκος (fruit-husk, shell, something unimportant)

Image matrix

No descendants observations found

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1034
Species10910