Habitus, dorsal view: Gloridonus (Ballana) caliperus, dorsally (INHS). (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view: Gloridonus (Ballana) caliperus, dorsally (INHS). (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view: Gloridonus (Ballana) filamenta, dorsal habitus (INHS). (Observation).
Habitus, lateral view: Gloridonus (Ballana) caliperus, laterally (INHS). (Observation).
Habitus, lateral view: Gloridonus (Ballana) filamenta, lateral habitus (INHS). (Observation).
Head: Gloridonus (Ballana) vetulus, face. (Observation).
Head: Gloridonus (Ballana) vetulus, head, pronotum, and mesonotum, dorsally. (Observation).

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (7)

  • Ballana DeLong, 1936a: 217.

    type species by original designation Thamnotettix atridorsum var. vetula Ball, 1910

  • Ballana (Viriosana) DeLong, 1936a: 217.

    type species by original designation Thamnotettix viriosa Ball, 1910

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  • Ballana (Viriosana) DeLong, 1936 (classified as Athysanina Van Duzee, 1892) in Hamilton, 1975b: 491.
  • Gloridonus (Ballana) DeLong, 1936 in Hamilton, 2014b: 155.

Type

Thamnotettix atridorsum var. vetula Ball, 1910 type species by original designation of Gloridonus (Ballana) DeLong, 1936

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

in honor of Elmer Darwin Ball (1870–1943), an American Auchenorrhyncha specialist + -ana (related to)

Nomenclature references (5)

  • DeLong, D.M. (1936a) Some new genera of leafhoppers related to Thamnotettix. The Ohio Journal of Science, 36, 217–219.
  • 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.
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  • Hamilton, K.G.A. (2014b) Extraordinary Endemism: The Nearctic Leafhoppers of Gloridonus Ball and Ballana DeLong (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 87(2), 111–204.
  • Neave, S.A. (1950a) Nomenclator zoologicus; a list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758, to the end of 1935. Zoological Society of London. London, Vol. 5, 308 pp.
  • Oman, P.W. (1949a) The Nearctic leafhoppers (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). A generic classification and check list. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Washington, 3, 1–253.

Stats

Names
Rank Total Valid Invalid
subgenus413
species15655101
subspecies511932