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Habitus, dorsal view on Twiningia Ball, 1931: Twiningia blanda, dorsal habitus (OSUC). (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view on Twiningia Ball, 1931: Twiningia blanda, dorsal habitus (OSUC). (Observation).
Habitus, lateral view on Twiningia Ball, 1931: Twiningia blanda, lateral habitus (OSUC). (Observation).

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (6)

  • Twiningia Ball, 1931c: 93.

    type species by original designation Scaphoideus blandus Ball, 1901

  • Twingingia [sic] Ball, 1931 in Evans, 1947a: 245.
  • Twiningia Ball, 1931 (classified as Scaphoideini Oman, 1943) in Oman, Knight & Nielson, 1990a: 258.
  • Twiningia Ball, 1931 (classified as Athysanini Van Duzee, 1892) in Zahniser & Dietrich, 2013a: 44.

Nomenclature references (5)

  • Ball, E.D. (1931c) Some new genera and species of leafhoppers related to Mesamia Ball. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society, 29, 91–95.
  • Evans, J.W. (1947a) A natural classification of leaf-hoppers (Jassoidea, Homoptera). Part 3: Jassidae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 98, 105–271.
  • 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.
  • Oman, P.W., Knight, W.J. & Nielson, M.W. (1990a) Leafhoppers (Cicadellidae): a bibliography, generic check-list and index to the world literature 1956-1985. CAB International Institute of Entomology, Wallingford, UK. (iv) + 368 pp.
  • 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

Type

type species by original designation of Twiningia Ball, 1931

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

English: twine, twining (twisted, weaved together) + -ia (noun suffix)

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
Genus1012
Species1901332