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Habitus, dorsal view: !! display not done !! on Paratanus Young, 1957: Paratanus sativae, dorsal habitus (AMNH). (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view: !! display not done !! on Paratanus Young, 1957: Paratanus sativae, dorsal habitus (AMNH). (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view: !! display not done !! on Paratanus Young, 1957: Paratanus exitiosus, dorsal habitus (AMNH). (Observation).
Habitus, lateral view: !! display not done !! on Paratanus Young, 1957: Paratanus sativae, lateral habitus (AMNH). (Observation).
Habitus, lateral view: !! display not done !! on Paratanus Young, 1957: Paratanus exitiosus, lateral habitus (AMNH). (Observation).

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (5)

  • Pataganus Linnavuori, 1956a: 9. (nomen nudum: no description)
  • Paratanus Young, 1957a: 14.

    type species by original designation Atanus exitiosus Beamer, 1943

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  • Paratanus Young, 1957 (classified as Athysanini Van Duzee, 1892) in Zahniser & Dietrich, 2013a: 43.
  • Paratanus Young, 1957 (classified as Platymetopiinae Haupt, 1929) in Zahniser, Dietrich, Cao, Dmitriev & Pinedo-Escatel, 2026: 26.

Nomenclature references (4)

  • Linnavuori, R.E. (1956a) Neotropical Homoptera of the Hungarian National Museum and some other European museums. Annales Entomologici Fennici, 22(1), 5–35.
  • Young, D.A., Jr. (1957a) A new genus of economic leafhoppers and notes on the genus Atanus Oman (Homoptera Cicadellidae). Revista Chilena Entomologia 5: 13-17. (With summary in Spanish.), 5, 13–17.
  • 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

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Greek: παρά (near) + Atanus

Image matrix

No descendants observations found

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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
genus1012
species130417
subspecies4048