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Habitus, dorsal view on Menosoma Ball, 1931: Menosoma sp., dorsal habitus (INHS). (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view on Menosoma Ball, 1931: Menosoma sp., dorsal habitus (INHS). (Observation).
Habitus, lateral view on Menosoma Ball, 1931: Menosoma sp., lateral habitus (INHS). (Observation).
Head on Menosoma Ball, 1931: Menosoma stonei, face. (Observation).
Head on Menosoma Ball, 1931: Menosoma stonei, head, pronotum, and mesonotum, dorsally. (Observation).
Pygofer, dorsal view on Menosoma Ball, 1931: pygofer, ventrally. (Observation).
Subgenital plate, ventral view on Menosoma Ball, 1931: genital capsule, dorsally. (Observation).
Stylus on Menosoma Ball, 1931: Stylus. (Observation).
Aedeagus, lateral view on Menosoma Ball, 1931: Aedeagus, lateral view. (Observation).
Forewing on Menosoma Ball, 1931: Menosoma stonei, forewing. (Observation).
Ovipositor on Menosoma Ball, 1931: Sternite VII. (Observation).

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.

Nomenclature references (4)

  • Ball, E.D. (1931a) Some new genera and species of leafhoppers related to Eutettix Van Duzee (Rhynchota Homoptera). 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. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2013.45

Type

type species by original designation of Menosoma Ball, 1931

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Greek: μένος (strong) or μείς (crescent moon) + σῶμα (body)

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
Species130720
Subspecies201315