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Habitus, dorsal view on Transcaucasica Koçak, 1981 now Chroocacus Emeljanov, 1962: Transcaucasica kobachidzeina, female, dorsal habitus (MNHN). (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view on Transcaucasica Koçak, 1981 now Chroocacus Emeljanov, 1962: Transcaucasica kobachidzeina, female, dorsal habitus (MNHN). (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view on Transcaucasica Koçak, 1981 now Chroocacus Emeljanov, 1962: Transcaucasica kobachidzeina, male, dorsal habitus (MNHN). (Observation).
Habitus, lateral view on Transcaucasica Koçak, 1981 now Chroocacus Emeljanov, 1962: Transcaucasica kobachidzeina, female, lateral habitus (MNHN). (Observation).
Habitus, lateral view on Transcaucasica Koçak, 1981 now Chroocacus Emeljanov, 1962: Transcaucasica kobachidzeina, male, lateral habitus (MNHN). (Observation).

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (7)

  • Chroocacus Emeljanov, 1962a: 171.

    type species by original designation Chroocacus psittaceus Emeljanov, 1962

  • Svanetia Schengeliya & Dlabola, 1964a: 659.

    type species by original designation Svanetia kobachidzeina Schengeliya & Dlabola, 1964

  • Svanetia Schengeliya & Dlabola, 1964 (replaced by Transcaucasica Koçak, 1981) in Koçak, 1981a: 32.
  • Transcaucasica Koçak, 1981 (subjective synonym of Chroocacus Emeljanov, 1962) in Dmitriev, 2026

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]
  • Schengeliya, K.S. & Dlabola, G.A. (1964a) Svanetia — a new cicadid genus from Svanetia (GSSR). Soobshcheniya Akademii Nauk Gruzinskoi SSR 34: 659-663. (In Russian.), 34, 659–663. [in Russian]
  • Logvinenko, V.N. (1974d) Bilusius valiko sp. n., a new species of Cicadellidae (Auchenorrhyncha) from Caucasus. [Bilusius valiko sp. n. — новый вид цикадок (Auchenorrhyncha, Cicadellidae) с Кавказа]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 53(8), 1261–1263.
  • Koçak, A.Ö. (1981a) List of the genera of Turkish Auchenorrhyncha (Homoptera), with some replacement names for genera existing in other countries. Priamus, 1(1), 30–40.
  • Dmitriev, D.A. (2026) Personal communication.

Type

type species by original designation of Chroocacus Emeljanov, 1962

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Greek: χρώς (color) + κακός (bad)

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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
Species1023