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World Auchenorrhyncha Database (WAD)
Species

Carvaka contempta (Kirkaldy, 1906)

Pygofer, lateral view on Carvaka contempta (Kirkaldy, 1906): Pygofer, lateral view. (Observation).
Pygofer, lateral view on Carvaka contempta (Kirkaldy, 1906): Pygofer, lateral view. (Observation).
Stylus on Carvaka contempta (Kirkaldy, 1906): Stylus, ventral view. (Observation).
Aedeagus, lateral view on Carvaka contempta (Kirkaldy, 1906): Aedeagus, lateral view. (Observation).
Aedeagus, ventral view on Carvaka contempta (Kirkaldy, 1906): Aedeagus, ventral view. (Observation).
Aedeagus, ventral view on Carvaka contempta (Kirkaldy, 1906): Aedeagus, ventral view. (Observation).
Connective on Carvaka contempta (Kirkaldy, 1906): Connective. (Observation).
Forewing on Carvaka contempta (Kirkaldy, 1906): Forewing. (Observation).

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (11)

  • Nephotettix contemptus Kirkaldy, 1906c: 332.

    Lectotype; female; e5362447-7c11-4eb9-9bfe-61c7bbbd0118; deposited at: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (BPBM); Australia, New South Wales: Sydney, i.1905, coll. Koebele

  • Nephotettix eurytus Kirkaldy, 1907d: 54.

    Holotype; female; 3ad280a1-f752-410b-aec3-a03493211bf7; deposited at: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (BPBM); Australia, New South Wales: Sydney, i.1905, coll. Koebele

  • Carvaka contempta [sic] Kirkaldy, 1906 in Zhang & Webb, 1996a: 13.
  • Carvaka contempta [sic] Kirkaldy, 1906 (misspelling of Nephotettix contemptus Kirkaldy, 1906) in Zhang & Webb, 1996a: 13.

Nomenclature references (8)

  • Stål, C. (1855a) Hemiptera från Kafferlandet. Öfversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, 12, 89–100.
  • Kirkaldy, G.W. (1906c) Leaf-hoppers and their natural enemies. (Pt. IX. Leaf-hoppers-Hemiptera). Report of work of the Experiment Station of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association. Entomological series, 1(9), 271–479.
  • Kirkaldy, G.W. (1907d) Leaf-Hoppers - Supplement (Hemiptera). Report of work of the Experiment Station of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association. Entomological series, 3, 1–186, i-iii, pls. 1–20.
  • 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.
  • Ross, H.H. (1968a) The evolution and dispersal of the grassland leafhopper genus Exitianus, with keys to the Old World species (Cicadellidae: Hemiptera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology, 22(1), 1–30.
  • Fletcher, M.J. & Condello, A.A. (1993a) Lectotype designations and new synonymies for G.W. Kirkaldy's Australian Deltocephalinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) held in the B.P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu. General and Applied Entomology, 25, 35–59.
  • Day, M.F.C. & Fletcher, M.J. (1994a) An annotated catalogue of the Australian Cicadelloidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy, 8(5), 1117–1288.
  • Zhang, Y.-L. & Webb, M.D. (1996a) A revised classification of the Asian and Pacific selenocephaline leafhoppers (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology, 65(1), 1–103.
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Latin: despised, despicable; contemptible, vile

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
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RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Species1067