genus

Mesoptyelus Matsumura, 1904

Descendants and synonyms

Mesoptyelus Matsumura, 1904a: 48. (valid in Mozaffarian & Wilson, 2015a: 452)
type species by original monotypy Mesoptyelus nigrifrons Matsumura, 1904
Lepyroniella Melichar, 1913a: 323.
type species by original monotypy Lepyroniella caucasica Melichar, 1913
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Philaenus (Gyrurus) Tishechkin, 2012 (subjective synonym of Mesoptyelus Matsumura, 1904) in Mozaffarian & Wilson, 2015a: 452.
Mesoptyelus Matsumura, 1904 (classified as Ptyelinae Fowler, 1897) in Hamilton, 2016a: 205.

Anufriev, G.A. & Emeljanov, A.F. (1968a) New synonymy of Homoptera, Auchenorrhyncha from the Soviet Far East. [Материалы по синонимии цикадовых (Homoptera, Auchenorrhyncha) фауны Дальнего Востока]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 47(9), 1328–1332. [in Russian]
Anufriev, G.A. & Emeljanov, A.F. (1988a) Suborder Cicadinea (Auchenorrhyncha). [Подотряд Cicadinea (Auchenorrhyncha) – Цикадовые]. In P.A. Lehr (Ed.). Keys to the insects of the Far East of the USSR. Nauka, Leningrad (Russia). Vol. 2, pp. 12–495. [in Russian; 972pp.; translated into English by U.S. Department of Agriculture, 2001, Vol. 2, pp. 4-496]
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Mozaffarian, F. & Wilson, M.R. (2015a) The aphrophorid spittlebugs of Iran (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea: Aphrophoridae). Zootaxa, 4052(4), 442–456.
Tishechkin, D.Y. (2012c) Two new species of the genus Philaenus (Homoptera, Aphrophoridae) from Iran. [Два новых вида пенниц рода Philaenus (Homoptera, Aphrophoridae) из Ирана]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 91(9), 1058–1061. [in Russian; translated into English in Entomological Review, Washington, 2013, 93(1), 73-76]

type species by original monotypy of

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Greek: μέσος (medium) + Ptyelus

No descendants observations found