genus
Limotettix Sahlberg, 1871
Descendants and synonyms
Nomenclature (2)
- Limotettix Sahlberg, 1871a: 224.
type species by subsequent designation Cicada striola Fallén, 1806 in Van Duzee, 1892e: 306
- Limotettix Sahlberg, 1871 (classified as Athysanina Van Duzee, 1892) in Hamilton, 1975b: 491.
Type
Cicada striola Fallén, 1806 type species by subsequent designation of Limotettix Sahlberg, 1871
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:
Greek: λειμών (meadow) + τέττιξ (cicada)
Nomenclature references (3)
- 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.
- Sahlberg, J.R. (1871a) Öfversigt af Finlands och den Skandinaviska hälfons Cicadariae. I. Notiser ur Sällskapets pro Fauna et Flora Fennica Förhandlingar, 9(12), 1–506 + pls. 1–2.
- Van Duzee, E.P. (1892e) The North American Jassidae allied to Thamnotettix. Psyche: A Journal of Entomology, 6, 305–310.
Stats
| Valid names | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Extant | Fossil | Invalid | Total | |
| genus | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| subgenus | 3 | 0 | 9 | 12 | |
| species | 35 | 0 | 54 | 89 | |
| subspecies | 2 | 0 | 32 | 34 | |