genus

Hardya Edwards, 1922

Hardya Edwards, 1922a: 206.
type species by original monotypy Aphrodes melanopsis Hardy, 1850
Hardya Edwards, 1922 (classified as Athysanini Van Duzee, 1892)
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Hardya Edwards, 1922 (classified as Platymetopiina Haupt, 1929) in Dmitriev, 2006b
Hardya Edwards, 1922 (classified as Cicadulini Van Duzee, 1892) in Cao, Dietrich, Zahniser & Dmitriev, 2022: 441.

Aphrodes melanopsis Hardy, 1850 type species by original monotypy of Hardya Edwards, 1922

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

in honor of James Hardy (1815–1898), a Scottish naturalist and antiquarian

Cao, Y.-H., Dietrich, C.H., Zahniser, J.N. & Dmitriev, D.A. (2022) Dense sampling of taxa and characters improves phylogenetic resolution among deltocephaline leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae). Systematic Entomology, 47(3), 430–444. https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12540
Dmitriev, D.A. (2006b) Larvae of leafhoppers of the subfamily Deltocephalinae (Homoptera, Cicadellidae) of European Russia and adjacent territories. IV. Tribe Athysanini. [Личинки цикадовых подсем. Deltocephalinae (Homoptera, Cicadellidae) Европейской части России и сопредельных территорий. IV. Триба Athysanini]. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 85(1), 75–121. [in Russian; translated into English in Entomological Review, Washington, 86(1), 11–48]

Edwards, J. (1922a) A generic arrangement of British Jassina. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 58, 204–207.
Zakhvatkin, A.A. (1946b) Studies on the Homoptera of Turkey. I-VII. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 97, 149–176.