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Habitus, dorsal view on Neomesus Linnavuori, 1959: Neomesus obtusiceps, dorsal habitus (INHS). (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view on Neomesus Linnavuori, 1959: Neomesus obtusiceps, dorsal habitus (INHS). (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view on Neomesus Linnavuori, 1959: Neomesus obtusiceps, dorsally. (Observation).
Habitus, lateral view on Neomesus Linnavuori, 1959: Neomesus obtusiceps, lateral habitus (INHS). (Observation).

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (3)

  • Neomesus Linnavuori, 1959b: 233.

    type species by original designation Paramesus obtusiceps Berg, 1884

  • Neomesus Linnavuori, 1959 (classified as Athysanini Van Duzee, 1892) in Zahniser & Dietrich, 2013a: 43.
  • Neomesus Linnavuori, 1959 (classified as Pendarini Dmitriev, 2009) in Zahniser, Dietrich, Cao, Dmitriev & Pinedo-Escatel, 2026: 21.

Nomenclature references (3)

  • Linnavuori, R.E. (1959b) Revision of the Neotropical Deltocephalinae and some related subfamilies (Homoptera). Annales Zoologici Societatis Zoologicae-Botanicae Fennicae 'Vanamo', 20(1), 1–370.
  • 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
  • Zahniser, J.N., Dietrich, C.H., Cao, Y.-H., Dmitriev, D.A. & Pinedo-Escatel, J.A. (2026) New tribal placements, reinstatements and synonymies in the leafhopper subfamily Deltocephalinae (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae). European Journal of Taxonomy, 1035, 1–51. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2026.1035.3171

Type

type species by original designation of Neomesus Linnavuori, 1959

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Greek: νέος (new) + Paramesus

Image matrix

No descendants observations found

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1001
Species1012