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Habitus, dorsal view on Brachylope Emeljanov, 1962: Brachylope petrophila, dorsally (BMNH). (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view on Brachylope Emeljanov, 1962: Brachylope petrophila, dorsally (BMNH). (Observation).
Habitus, lateral view on Brachylope Emeljanov, 1962: Brachylope petrophila, laterally (BMNH). (Observation).

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (6)

  • Brachylope Emeljanov, 1962a: 162.

    type species by original designation Deltocephalus brachypterus Sidorskii, 1938

  • Elburzia Dlabola, 1974a: 71.

    type species by original designation Elburzia petrophila Dlabola, 1974

  • Elburzia Dlabola, 1974 (subjective synonym of Brachylope Emeljanov, 1962) in Emeljanov, 1999e: 609.
  • Brachylope Emeljanov, 1962 (incertae sedis in Deltocephali Fieber, 1869) in Zahniser, Dietrich, Cao, Dmitriev & Pinedo-Escatel, 2026: 36.

Nomenclature references (5)

  • Emeljanov, A.F. (1962a) Materials on taxonomy of Palearctic leafhoppers (Auchenorrhyncha, Euscelinae). [Материалы по систематике палеарктических цикадок (Auchenorrhyncha, Euscelinae)]. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR, 30, 156–184. [in Russian]
  • Dlabola, J. (1974a) Ergebnisse der Tschechoslowakisch-Iranischen entomologischen Expedition nach dem Iran 1970. Nr. 3: Homoptera, Auchenorrhyncha (1. Teil). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, 6(Suppl.), 29–73.
  • Nast, J. (1982a) Palaearctic Auchenorrhyncha (Homoptera). Part 3. New taxa and replacement names introduced till 1980. Annales Zoologici, Warszaw, 36(17), 289–362.
  • Emeljanov, A.F. (1999e) A key to genera of the subfamily Deltocephalinae s. l. (Homoptera, Cicadellidae) from Kazakhstan, Middle Asia and Mongolia with description of new genera and subgenera. [Определительная таблица родов подсем. Deltocephalinae s. l. (Homoptera, Cicadellidae) Казахстана, Средней Азии и Монголии с описанием новых родов и подродов]. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 78(3), 589–609. [in Russian; translated into English in Entomological Review, Washington, 79(5), 547–562]
  • Zahniser, J.N., Dietrich, C.H., Cao, Y.-H., Dmitriev, D.A. & Pinedo-Escatel, J.A. (2026) New tribal placements, reinstatements and synonymies in the leafhopper subfamily Deltocephalinae (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae). European Journal of Taxonomy, 1035, 1–51. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2026.1035.3171

Type

type species by original designation of Brachylope Emeljanov, 1962

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Greek: βραχύς (short) + λῶπος or λώπη (mantle, light thin coat)

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
Genus1023
Species3025