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Species

Deltocephalus brunnescens Distant, 1908

Head on Deltocephalus brunnescens Distant, 1908: Head and thorax. (Observation).
Head on Deltocephalus brunnescens Distant, 1908: Head and thorax. (Observation).
Pygofer, lateral view on Deltocephalus brunnescens Distant, 1908: Pygofer, lateral view. (Observation).
Subgenital plate, ventral view on Deltocephalus brunnescens Distant, 1908: Subgenital plate. (Observation).
Aedeagus, lateral view on Deltocephalus brunnescens Distant, 1908: Aedeagus, lateral view. (Observation).
Aedeagus, lateral view on Deltocephalus brunnescens Distant, 1908: Aedeagus, lateral view. (Observation).
Aedeagus, ventral view on Deltocephalus brunnescens Distant, 1908: Aedeagus, ventral view. (Observation).
Aedeagus, ventral view on Deltocephalus brunnescens Distant, 1908: Aedeagus, ventral view. (Observation).
Forewing on Deltocephalus brunnescens Distant, 1908: Forewing. (Observation).

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (4)

  • Deltocephalus brunnescens Distant, 1908g: 388.

    Syntypes; female; 0c1e29d6-65e4-47a5-9b19-b7e5e2e869cc; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); India, Bihar: Pusa, H.M. Lefroy. Syntypes; female; c1eb0865-0bf0-4cd0-bb29-84d967f16abb; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); India, Gujarat: Surat, H.M. Lefroy

  • Deltocephalus (Recilia) brunnescens Distant, 1908 in Dash & Viraktamath, 1998a: 7.
  • Deltocephalus (Deltocephalus) bapatlensis Sudha Jacob & Rama Subba Rao, 2004 in Sudha Jacob, Rama Subba Rao & Chalam, 2004a: 187.
  • Deltocephalus (Deltocephalus) bapatlensis Sudha Jacob & Rama Subba Rao, 2004 (subjective synonym of Deltocephalus brunnescens Distant, 1908) in Webb & Viraktamath, 2009a: 13.

Nomenclature references (4)

  • Dash, P.C. & Viraktamath, C.A. (1998a) A review of the Indian and Nepalese grass feeding leafhopper genus Deltocephalus (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) with description of new species. Hexapoda (Insecta Indica), 10(1-2), 1–59.
  • Distant, W.L. (1908g) Rhynchota. IV. Homoptera and appendix (Pt.). In The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. London: Taylor & Francis. pp. 1–419. [XV + 501 pp.]
  • Sudha Jacob, P., Rama Subba Rao, V. & Chalam, M.S.V. (2004a) Description of new species belonging to the genus Deltocephalus Burmeister from India (Insecta, Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha, Cicadellidae: Deltocephalini). Journal of Entomological Research (New Delhi), 28(3), 187–191.
  • Webb, M.D. & Viraktamath, C.A. (2009a) Annotated check-list, generic key and new species of Old World Deltocephalini leafhoppers with nomenclatorial changes in the Deltocephalus group and other Deltocephalinae (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha, Cicadellidae). Zootaxa, 2163, 1–64.
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Latin: brownish

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
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