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Habitus, dorsal view: !! display not done !! on Mesamia Ball, 1907: Mesamia nigridorsum, dorsal habitus (INHS). (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view: !! display not done !! on Mesamia Ball, 1907: Mesamia nigridorsum, dorsal habitus (INHS). (Observation).
Habitus, lateral view: !! display not done !! on Mesamia Ball, 1907: Mesamia nigridorsum, lateral habitus (INHS). (Observation).
Head: !! display not done !! on Mesamia Ball, 1907: Mesamia nigridorsum, head, pronotum, and mesonotum, dorsally. (Observation).
Head: !! display not done !! on Mesamia Ball, 1907: Mesamia nigridorsum, face. (Observation).
Forewing: !! display not done !! on Mesamia Ball, 1907: Mesamia nigridorsum, forewing. (Observation).

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (6)

  • 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.

Nomenclature references (5)

  • 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, C.C. (1940b) The effect of overgrazing and erosion upon the biota of the mixed-grass prairie of Oklahoma. Ecology, 21, 381–397.
  • 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

Type

type species by original designation of

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

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

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
genus1023
species2601440
subspecies40610