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Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (4)

  • Equeefa castelnaui Distant, 1910e: 243.

    Holotype; male; 9489eebe-5205-429e-81e8-1bd8f42daa23; deposited at: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUM); South Africa, Eastern Cape, former Kaffraria, or British Caffraria, 1862, Castelnau

  • Equeefa castelenaui [sic] Distant, 1910 in Evans, 1947a: 194.
  • Equeefa castelenaui [sic] Distant, 1910 (misspelling of Equeefa castelnaui Distant, 1910) in Evans, 1947a: 194.
  • Aletta castelnaui (Distant, 1910) in Evans, 1955a: 25.

Nomenclature references (4)

  • Distant, W.L. (1910e) Order Rhynchota. Suborder Homoptera. In Insecta transvaaliensia; a contribution to a knowledge of the entomology of South Africa. F. Edwards. London. Vol. 10, pp. 229–252, pls. XXII-XXIII.
  • 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.
  • Evans, J.W. (1955a) Cicadellidae (Hemiptera Homoptera). Exploration du Parc National de l’Upemba, mission G.F. de Witte en collaboration avec W. Adam, A. Janssens, L. Van Meel et R. Verheyen (1946-1949), 37, 1–44.
  • Theron, J.G. (1984c) Coelidiinae (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) described from South Africa in the genera Palicus Stål, Equeefa Distant and Aletta Metcalf, with descriptions of new species. Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 47(2), 313–327.
Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

in honor of François-Louis Nompar de Caumont Laporte, comte de Castelnau, also known as François Laporte or Francis de Castelnau (1802-1880), a French naturalist

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
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Species1023