genus
Menosoma Ball, 1931
Descendants and synonyms
Nomenclature (5)
- Menosoma Ball, 1931a: 4.
type species by original designation Menosoma stonei Ball, 1931
- Menosoma Ball, 1931 (classified as Platymetopiina Haupt, 1929) in Hamilton, 1975b: 495.
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- Monosoma [sic] Ball, 1931 (misspelling of Menosoma Ball, 1931) in Cheng, 1980a: 101.
- Menosoma Ball, 1931 (classified as Bahitini Zahniser & Dietrich, 2013) in Zahniser & Dietrich, 2013a: 49.
Type
Menosoma stonei Ball, 1931 type species by original designation of Menosoma Ball, 1931
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:
Greek: μένος (strong) or μείς (crescent moon) + σῶμα (body)
Nomenclature references (4)
- Ball, E.D. (1931a) Some new genera and species of leafhoppers related to Eutettix Van Duzee (Rhynchota Homoptera). The Florida Entomologist, 15, 1–6.
- Cheng, Y.-J. (1980a) New leafhopper taxa (Homoptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) from Paraguay. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 53(1), 61–111.
- 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.
- Zahniser, J.N. & Dietrich, C.H. (2013a) A review of the tribes of Deltocephalinae (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae). European Journal of Taxonomy, 45, 1–211.
Stats
| Valid names | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Extant | Fossil | Invalid | Total | |
| genus | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| species | 13 | 0 | 7 | 20 | |
| subspecies | 3 | 0 | 12 | 15 | |