Genus
Chimaerotettix Dietrich & Rakitov, 2002
Descendants and synonyms
Nomenclature (3)
- Chimaerotettix Dietrich & Rakitov, 2002a: 4.
type species by original designation Chimaerotettix ochrescens Dietrich & Rakitov, 2002
- Chimaerotettix Dietrich & Rakitov, 2002 (classified as Athysanini Van Duzee, 1892) in Zahniser & Dietrich, 2013a: 41.
- Chimaerotettix Dietrich & Rakitov, 2002 (incertae sedis in Deltocephali Fieber, 1869) in Zahniser, Dietrich, Cao, Dmitriev & Pinedo-Escatel, 2026: 36.
Nomenclature references (3)
- Dietrich, C.H. & Rakitov, R.A. (2002a) Some remarkable new deltocephaline leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) from the Amazonian rainforest canopy. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 110(1), 1–48.
- Zahniser, J.N. & Dietrich, C.H. (2013a) A review of the tribes of Deltocephalinae (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae). European Journal of Taxonomy, 45, 1–211. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2013.45
- 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
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:
after Chimera (Greek: Χίμαιρα), in Greek mythology, a creature composed of the parts of more than one animal + Greek: τέττιξ (cicada)
Image matrix
No descendants observations found
Stats
| Taxon | Valid names | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Extant | Fossil | Invalid | Total |
| Genus | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Species | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |