genus
Nisitra Walker, 1869
Descendants and synonyms
Nomenclature (10)
- Nisitra Walker, 1869b: 327.
type species by subsequent designation Nisitra telifera Walker, 1869 in Metcalf, 1952a: 229
- Tharra Kirkaldy, 1906c: 324.
type species by original monotypy Tharra labena Kirkaldy, 1906
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- Tharra Kirkaldy, 1906 (subjective synonym of Nisitra Walker, 1869) in McKamey & Dmitriev, 2022
- Nisitrana Metcalf, 1952 (unnecessary replacement for Nisitra Walker, 1869) in Dmitriev, 2024
Type
Nisitra telifera Walker, 1869 type species by subsequent designation of Nisitra Walker, 1869
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:
after Nisitra Island (Mediterranean Sea)
Nomenclature references (8)
- Dmitriev, D.A. (2024) Personal communication.
- Kirkaldy, G.W. (1906c) Leaf-hoppers and their natural enemies. (Pt. IX. Leaf-hoppers-Hemiptera). Report of work of the Experiment Station of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association. Entomological series, 1(9), 271–479.
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- Osborn, H. (1934a) Part II. Hemiptera. Cicadellidae (Jassidae). Insects of Samoa and other Samoan Terrestrial Arthropods., 4, 163–192.
- Walker, F. (1869b) Catalogue of the homopterous insects collected in the Indian Archipelago by Mr. A. R. Wallace, with descriptions of new species. Journal of the Linnean Society, Zoology, 10, 276–330. [1870] https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1869.tb00663.x
Stats
| Valid names | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Extant | Fossil | Invalid | Total | |
| genus | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | |
| species | 98 | 0 | 57 | 155 | |
| subspecies | 7 | 0 | 2 | 9 | |