Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (2)

  • Deltocephalus (Recilia) agroecus Dash & Viraktamath, 1998a: 15.

    Holotype; male; e13da8f9-1dd3-465b-a7e8-0780ee874cc6; deposited at: University of Agricultural Sciences, Bengaluru, India (UASB); India: Kamataka: Bangalore, 916 m, 13.ix.1992, P.C. Dash

  • Maiestas agroeca (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998) in Webb & Viraktamath, 2009a: 21.
Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

from Latin (ager, agri + ecus, alternative form of equus): field + horse

Nomenclature references (2)

  • 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.
  • 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.

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