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Habitus, dorsal view: !! display not done !! on Fitchana Oman, 1949: Fitchana vitellina, dorsal habitus (OSUC). (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view: !! display not done !! on Fitchana Oman, 1949: Fitchana vitellina, dorsal habitus (OSUC). (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view: !! display not done !! on Fitchana Oman, 1949: Fitchana vitellina, habitus. (Observation).
Habitus, lateral view: !! display not done !! on Fitchana Oman, 1949: Fitchana vitellina, lateral habitus (OSUC). (Observation).
Habitus, lateral view: !! display not done !! on Fitchana Oman, 1949: Fitchana vitellina, nymph. (Observation).
Pygofer, lateral view: !! display not done !! on Fitchana Oman, 1949: Fitchana vitellina, genital capsule, laterally. (Observation).
Head: !! display not done !! on Fitchana Oman, 1949: Fitchana vitellina, face. (Observation).
Subgenital plate: !! display not done !! on Fitchana Oman, 1949: Fitchana vitellina, genital capsule, ventrally. (Observation).
Forewing: !! display not done !! on Fitchana Oman, 1949: Fitchana vitellina, forewing. (Observation).
Ovipositor: !! display not done !! on Fitchana Oman, 1949: Fitchana vitellina, female pygofer, ventrally. (Observation).

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (4)

  • Fitchana Oman, 1949a: 133.

    type species by original designation Acocephalus [sic] vitellinus Fitch, 1851

  • Fitchana Oman, 1949 (classified as Platymetopiina Haupt, 1929) in Hamilton, 1975b: 494.
  • Fitchana Oman, 1949 (classified as Platymetopiini Haupt, 1929) in Oman, Knight & Nielson, 1990a: 213.
  • Fitchana Oman, 1949 (classified as Athysanini Van Duzee, 1892) in Zahniser & Dietrich, 2013a: 42.

Type

Acocephalus [sic] vitellinus Fitch, 1851 type species by original designation of Fitchana Oman, 1949

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

in honor of Asa Fitch (1809–1879), an American historian and entomologist + -ana (related to)

Nomenclature references (4)

  • Hamilton, K.G.A. (1975b) Review of the tribal classification of the leafhopper subfamily Aphrodinae (Deltocephalinae of authors) of the Holarctic region (Rhynchota: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). The Canadian Entomologist, 107, 477–498.
  • Oman, P.W. (1949a) The Nearctic leafhoppers (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). A generic classification and check list. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Washington, 3, 1–253.
  • 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

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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
species302124