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Habitus, dorsal view on Egidemia fowleri (Distant, 1908): female: Egidemia fowleri, Mexico, Jalisco, EMEC. (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view on Egidemia fowleri (Distant, 1908): female: Egidemia fowleri, Mexico, Jalisco, EMEC. (Observation).
Brochosomes on Egidemia fowleri (Distant, 1908): EG33 | Mexico, Jalisco, Est. Biol. Chamela, 7/20-27/1984 | J. T. Doyen | EMEC. (Observation).
Brochosomes on Egidemia fowleri (Distant, 1908): EG33 | Mexico, Jalisco, Est. Biol. Chamela, 7/20-27/1984 | J. T. Doyen | EMEC. (Observation).
Brochosomes on Egidemia fowleri (Distant, 1908): EG33 | Mexico, Jalisco, Est. Biol. Chamela, 7/20-27/1984 | J. T. Doyen | EMEC. (Observation).
Brochosomes on Egidemia fowleri (Distant, 1908): EG33 | Mexico, Jalisco, Est. Biol. Chamela, 7/20-27/1984 | J. T. Doyen | EMEC. (Observation).

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (10)

  • Tettigonia speculifera (Signoret, 1854) non Walker, 1851 in Signoret, 1854c: 483.
  • Tettigonia speculifera (Signoret, 1854) non Walker, 1851 (misapplication, linked to Proconia speculifera Walker, 1851)
  • Oncometopia (Egidemia) fowleri Distant, 1908 in Metcalf, 1965a: 596.
  • Egidemia fowleri (Distant, 1908) in Young, 1968a: 181.

Nomenclature references (10)

  • 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.
  • Signoret, V.A. (1854c) Revue iconographique des Tettigonides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, (3 série), 2(3), 483–496 + pl. 17.
  • Distant, W.L. (1908b) Rhynchotal notes. -- XLIV (concluded). Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (Ser. 8), 2, 57–84.
  • Osborn, H. (1909a) Notes on Guatemalan Hemiptera with descriptions of a few new species. The Ohio Naturalist, 9(5), 457–466.
  • Melichar, L. (1925a) Monographie der Cicadellinen. II. Annales Musei Historico-Naturalis Hungarici, 22, 329–410.
  • Schmidt, E. (1928c) Die Cicadellinen des Stettiner Museums. (Hemiptera-Homoptera). II. Wiener Entomologische Zeitung, 45, 53–90.
  • Schröder, H. (1959a) Taxonomische und tiergeographische Studien an Neotropischen Zikaden (Cicadellidae, Tettigellinae). (Taxonomic and zoogeogeogrical studies on Neotropical Cicadellidae.). Abhandlungen Senckenbergischen Naturforchenden Gesellschaft, 499, 1–93.
  • Metcalf, Z.P. (1965a) General catalogue of the Homoptera. Fascicle VI. Cicadelloidea. Part 1. Tettigellidae. Washington, D.C., USDA, II+730 pp.
  • 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. (1968a) Taxonomic study of the Cicadellinae (Homoptera, Cicadellidae). Part 1. Proconiini. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 261, i-vi+1–287.
Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

in honor of William Weeks Fowler (1849–1923), an English clergyman and entomologist who mostly specialized in Coleoptera

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Species1078