Genus

Docalidia Nielson, 1979

Descendants and synonyms

Scaris Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828a: 609.
type species by original monotypy Iassus ferrugineus Fabricius, 1803
Smaris [sic] Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828 in Germar, 1833a: 179.

Scaries [sic] Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828 (misspelling of Scaris Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828) in Oman, Knight & Nielson, 1990a: 250.
Scaris Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828 (partially suppressed under Docalidia Nielson, 1979) in International Commission On Zoological Nomenclature, 2025: 151.

Le Peletier, A.L.M., de Saint-Fargeau & Audinet-Serville, J.G. (1828a) Tettigometre, Tettigometra and Tettigone, Tettigonia. (Scaphinote - Zyg). In Encyclopédie méthodique: Histoire naturelle. Entomologie, ou Histoire naturelle des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Insectes. Paris, Agasse. Vol. 10, Issue 2, pp. 600–613. [1825; 345-829 pp.]
Germar, E.F. (1833a) Conspectus generum Cicadariarum. Revue Entomologique, publiée par Gustave Silbermann, 1, 174–184.

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.
International Commission On Zoological Nomenclature, I.C.Z.N. (2025) Opinion 2516 (Case 3582) – Scarides Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843 (currently Scaridae; Insecta, Hemiptera) and Scaridi Rafinesque, 1810 (currently Scaridae; Osteichthyes): homonymy removed. The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 82, 151–155.

type species by original designation of Docalidia Nielson, 1979

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Portuguese: doca (dock, canal) + Coelidia

No descendants observations found