genus

Mesamia Ball, 1907

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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Mesanua [sic] Ball, 1907 (misspelling of Eutettix (Mesamia) Ball, 1907) in Smith, 1940b: 338.
Eutettix (Mesamia) Ball, 1907 (classified as Platymetopiina Haupt, 1929) in Hamilton, 1975b: 495.

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.

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.]