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Diestostemma Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843

Live specimen on Diestostemma Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843: Diestostemma sp., nymph @ Venezuela, by D. M. Takiya. (Observation).
Live specimen on Diestostemma Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843: Diestostemma sp., nymph @ Venezuela, by D. M. Takiya. (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view on Diestostemma Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843: Diestostemma sp. @ Costa Rica, by Gernot Kunz. (Observation).
Nymph on Diestostemma Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843: (Observation).
Nymph on Diestostemma Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843: (Observation).
Nymph on Diestostemma Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843: (Observation).
Nymph on Diestostemma Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843: (Observation).

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (21)

  • Diestostemma Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843a: 572.

    type species by original designation Cicada albipennis Fabricius, 1803

  • Diastotemma [sic] Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843 in Spinola, 1850a: 58.
  • ... Show all ... (17)
  • Diestotemma [sic] Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843 in Keil & Lozada, 2021: 28.
  • Diestotemma [sic] Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843 (misspelling of Diestostemma Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843) in Keil & Lozada, 2021: 28.

Nomenclature references (12)

  • Amyot, C.J.-B. & Audinet-Serville, J.G. (1843a) Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Hémiptères. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret. Paris, lxxvi + 676 pp. + 12 pls.
  • da Costa Lima, Â.M. (1942a) Insetos do Brasil. 3. Tomo. Homópteros. Escola Nacional de Agronomia, Rio de Janeiro, Vol. 3, 327 pp.
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  • Desmarest, E.A.S.L. (1859a) Annelés-Hémiptères. [Quatrième Famille-Fulgoriens. Cinquième Famille-Cicadiens]. In Encyclopédie d'histoire naturelle. Vol. 6, pp. 195–203.
  • Evans, J.W. (1947a) A natural classification of leaf-hoppers (Jassoidea, Homoptera). Part 3: Jassidae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 98, 105–271.
  • Haupt, H. (1929c) Neueinteilung der Homoptera-Cicadina nach phylogenetisch zu wertended Merkmalen. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Thiere, 58, 173–286.
  • 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
  • Kirkaldy, G.W. (1907d) Leaf-Hoppers - Supplement (Hemiptera). Report of work of the Experiment Station of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association. Entomological series, 3, 1–186, i-iii, pls. 1–20.
  • Melichar, L. (1924a) Monographie der Cicadellinen. I. Annales Musei Historico-Naturalis Hungarici, 21, 195–243. [separate paged 1-49]
  • Oman, P.W., Knight, W.J. & Nielson, M.W. (1990a) Leafhoppers (Cicadellidae): a bibliography, generic check-list and index to the world literature 1956-1985. CAB International Institute of Entomology, Wallingford, UK. (iv) + 368 pp.
  • Schmidt, E. (1928a) Die Cicadellinen des Stettiner Museums. (Hemiptera-Homoptera). I. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung, 89, 31–62.
  • Spinola, M. (1850a) Tavola sinottica dei generi spettanti alla classe degle insetti artroidignati, Flemiptera, Linn. Latr. -Rhyngota, Fab.-Rhynchota, Burm. Memorie della Società Italiana delle Scienze residente in Modena, 25(1), 1–60. [reprinted in 1852 with different page numbers]
  • Young, D.A., Jr. (1968a) Taxonomic study of the Cicadellinae (Homoptera, Cicadellidae). Part 1. Proconiini. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 261, i-vi+1–287.

Type

type species by original designation of Diestostemma Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Greek: διεστὼς (distant) + στέμμα (ocellus)

Image matrix

No descendants observations found

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus101011
Species3703269