genus
Carvaka Distant, 1918
Descendants and synonyms
Nomenclature (5)
- Carvaka Distant, 1918b: 40.
type species by original designation Carvaka picturata Distant, 1918
- Exitianiellus Evans, 1966a: 229.
type species by original designation Exitianiellus elegantula Evans, 1966
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- Exitianellus [sic] Evans, 1966 (misspelling of Exitianiellus Evans, 1966) in Day & Fletcher, 1994a: 1206.
- Exitianiellus Evans, 1966 (subjective synonym of Carvaka Distant, 1918) in Fletcher & Semeraro, 2007a: 90.
Type
Carvaka picturata Distant, 1918 type species by original designation of Carvaka Distant, 1918
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:
after Charvaka, originally known as Lokāyata and Bṛhaspatya, is the ancient school of Indian materialism
Nomenclature references (4)
- Day, M.F.C. & Fletcher, M.J. (1994a) An annotated catalogue of the Australian Cicadelloidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy, 8(5), 1117–1288.
- Distant, W.L. (1918b) Rhynchota. VII. Homoptera: appendix. Heteroptera: addenda. In A.E. Shipley & G.A.K. Marshall (Eds.). The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Taylor & Francis, London. Vol. 7, pp. i-viii + 1–210.
- Evans, J.W. (1966a) The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand (Homoptera: Cicadelloidea and Cercopoidea). Memoirs of the Australian Museum, 12, 1–347.
- Fletcher, M.J. & Semeraro, L. (2007a) Genus Carvaka Distant in Australia (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Selenocephalinae). Australian Journal of Entomology.
Stats
| Valid names | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Extant | Fossil | Invalid | Total | |
| genus | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | |
| species | 25 | 0 | 15 | 40 | |