genus

Mesamia Ball, 1907

Descendants and synonyms

Eutettix (Mesamia) Ball, 1907a: 59.
type species by original designation Eutettix (Mesamia) nigridorsum Ball, 1907
Mesamia Ball, 1907 in Smith, 1910a: 103.
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Eutettix (Mesamia) Ball, 1907 (classified as Platymetopiina Haupt, 1929) in Hamilton, 1975b: 495.
Eutettix (Mesamia) Ball, 1907 (classified as Athysanini Van Duzee, 1892) in Zahniser & Dietrich, 2013a: 43.

Eutettix (Mesamia) nigridorsum Ball, 1907 type species by original designation of Mesamia Ball, 1907

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Greek: μέσος (medium) + ένας, μια (one)

Ball, E.D. (1907a) The genus Eutettix with especial reference to E. tenella, the beet leaf hopper: a taxonomic, biologic and economic study of the North American forms. Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences, 12, 27–94.
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.
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Smith, J.B. (1910a) Order Homoptera. In Annual Report of the New Jersey State Museum including a report of the insects of New Jersey. MacCrellish & Quigley, State Printers, Trenton, New Jersey. pp. 87–130. [1909; 888 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