species

Mesamia nigridorsum (Ball, 1907)

Habitus, lateral view: !! display not done !! on Mesamia nigridorsum (Ball, 1907): Mesamia nigridorsum, lateral habitus (INHS). (Observation).

Pygofer, lateral view: !! display not done !! on Mesamia nigridorsum (Ball, 1907): genital capsule, laterally. (Observation).

Head: !! display not done !! on Mesamia nigridorsum (Ball, 1907): Mesamia nigridorsum, face. (Observation).

Head: !! display not done !! on Mesamia nigridorsum (Ball, 1907): Mesamia nigridorsum, head, pronotum, and mesonotum, dorsally. (Observation).

Forewing: !! display not done !! on Mesamia nigridorsum (Ball, 1907): forewing. (Observation).

Forewing: !! display not done !! on Mesamia nigridorsum (Ball, 1907): Mesamia nigridorsum, forewing. (Observation).

Nymph: !! display not done !! on Mesamia nigridorsum (Ball, 1907): (Observation).

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (7)

Eutettix (Mesamia) nigridorsum Ball, 1907a: 60.
Syntypes; adult; 211ecc75-56ad-4f38-8bf0-c39302ed8648; deposited at: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (USNM); U.S.A., Pennsylvania: Penn Station, Wirt. Syntypes; adult; b8d8d22b-e386-42c9-a615-d7bfdbb6e6d7; deposited at: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (USNM); U.S.A., North Carolina: Black Mountains, Beutenmueller. Syntypes; adult; 9f1579d3-b043-4b87-a910-d4f2fcf5c956; deposited at: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (USNM); U.S.A., Iowa: Ames and Little Rock, Ball. Syntypes; adult; 9a224df6-a8f8-4ea7-8b5d-bb0776aecf5f; deposited at: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (USNM); U.S.A., South Dakota: Sioux Falls, Osborn. Syntypes; adult; 73d99f7f-efd2-4e3c-a226-9c5d94ffdc2a; deposited at: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (USNM); U.S.A., Kansas: Onaga, Crevec. Syntypes; adult; 5f1ee202-7403-40a5-b15c-8517efab20e8; deposited at: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (USNM); U.S.A., Colorado: Lamar, Pike’s Peak, Pueblo and Trinidad, Ball. Syntypes; adult; 64dabf3b-f11f-4738-a8d9-6f028f541d1f; deposited at: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (USNM); U.S.A., Colorado: Colorado Springs, Tucker. Syntypes; adult; 096e15c6-6b4e-4617-bd21-45197e570038; deposited at: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (USNM); U.S.A., Utah: Provo, Lehi, Salt Lake and Logan, Ball. Syntypes; adult; 47a092ff-a08e-478a-919c-58f520f1a7bc; deposited at: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (USNM); Mexico: Guerrero, Biologia coll.
Eutettix nigridoesum [sic] (Ball, 1907) in Ball, 1909a: 81.
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Mesamia nigrodorsum [sic] Ball, 1907 in Severin, 1921c: 20.
Mesamia nigrodorsum [sic] Ball, 1907 (misspelling of Eutettix (Mesamia) nigridorsum Ball, 1907) in Severin, 1921c: 20.

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Latin: black back

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.
Ball, E.D. (1909a) Some new North American Jassidae. The Canadian Entomologist, 41(3), 77–84.
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Severin, H.C. (1921c) A preliminary report of the Cicadellidae of South Dakota. Ann. Rept. South Dakota State Entomol., 12, 19–23.
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.]

Stats

	Valid names
Rank	Extant	Fossil	Invalid	Total
species	1	0	4	5