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Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (4)

  • Cortona Oman, 1938b: 390.

    type species by original designation Cortona minuta Oman, 1938

  • Cortona Oman, 1938 (classified as Macrostelini Kirkaldy, 1906) in Knight & Webb, 1993a: 46.
  • Cortona Oman, 1938 (classified as Deltocephali Fieber, 1869) in Kamitani, 1999a: 79.
  • Cortona Oman, 1938 (classified as Deltocephali Fieber, 1869) in Duan, Dietrich & Zhang, 2017b: 360.

Nomenclature references (4)

  • Duan, Y.-N., Dietrich, C.H. & Zhang, Y.-L. (2017b) Revision of the South American grassland leafhopper genus Cortona Oman (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Deltocephalini) with description of four new species from Argentina. Zootaxa, 4242(2), 359–371.
  • Kamitani, S. (1999a) The phylogeny of the genera in the tribes Deltocephalini, Paralimnini, and their allies (Homoptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae). Esakia, 39, 65–108.
  • Knight, W.J. & Webb, M.D. (1993a) The phylogenetic relationships between virus vector and other genera of macrosteline leafhoppers, including descriptions of new taxa (Homoptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae). Systematic Entomology, 18(1), 11–55.
  • Oman, P.W. (1938b) A generic revision of American Bythoscopinae and South American Jassinae. The Kansas University Science Bulletin, 24(16), 343–420.

Type

type species by original designation of

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

unknown

Image matrix

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Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
Taxon Valid names
Rank Extant Fossil Invalid Total
genus1001
species5005