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Habitus, dorsal view: !! display not done !! on Egenus Oman, 1938: Egenus gracillimus, female paratype, dorsally (OSUC). (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view: !! display not done !! on Egenus Oman, 1938: Egenus gracillimus, female paratype, dorsally (OSUC). (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view: !! display not done !! on Egenus Oman, 1938: Egenus gracillimus, female paratype, dorsally (OSUC). (Observation).
Habitus, lateral view: !! display not done !! on Egenus Oman, 1938: Egenus gracillimus, female paratype, laterally (OSUC). (Observation).
Habitus, lateral view: !! display not done !! on Egenus Oman, 1938: Egenus gracillimus, female paratype, laterally (OSUC). (Observation).

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (5)

  • Egenus Oman, 1938b: 363.

    type species by original designation Egenus acuminatus Oman, 1938

  • Egenus Oman, 1938 (classified as Hecalini Distant, 1908) in Oman, Knight & Nielson, 1990a: 208.
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  • Egenus Oman, 1938 (classified as Athysanini Van Duzee, 1892) in Zahniser & Dietrich, 2013a: 42.
  • Egenus Oman, 1938 (classified as Pendarini Dmitriev, 2009) in Zahniser, Dietrich, Cao, Dmitriev & Pinedo-Escatel, 2026: 21.

Nomenclature references (5)

  • Hamilton, K.G.A. (2000a) Five genera of New World “shovel-headed” and “spoon-bill” leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Dorycephalini and Hecalini). The Canadian Entomologist, 132, 429–503.
  • Oman, P.W. (1938b) A generic revision of American Bythoscopinae and South American Jassinae. The Kansas University Science Bulletin, 24(16), 343–420.
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  • 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.
  • 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

Type

type species by original designation of

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Latin: egenus (indigent, needy)

Image matrix

No descendants observations found

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
Taxon Valid names
Rank Extant Fossil Invalid Total
genus1001
species4004