genus

Streptanus Ribaut, 1942

Streptanus Ribaut, 1942a: 261.
type species by original designation Cicada sordida Zetterstedt, 1828
Streptanus Ribaut, 1942 (classified as Athysanina Van Duzee, 1892) in Dmitriev, 2006b

Cicada sordida Zetterstedt, 1828 type species by original designation of Streptanus Ribaut, 1942

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Greek: στρεπτός (twisted) (reffering to the twisted aedeagus)

Dmitriev, D.A. (2006b) Larvae of leafhoppers of the subfamily Deltocephalinae (Homoptera, Cicadellidae) of European Russia and adjacent territories. IV. Tribe Athysanini. [Личинки цикадовых подсем. Deltocephalinae (Homoptera, Cicadellidae) Европейской части России и сопредельных территорий. IV. Триба Athysanini]. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 85(1), 75–121. [in Russian; translated into English in Entomological Review, Washington, 86(1), 11–48]
Ribaut, H. (1942a) Demembrement des generes Athysanus Burm. et Thamnottetix Zett. [Homoptera-Jassidae]. Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse, 77, 259–270. [separate paged 1-12]