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Species

Davisonia americana (Van Duzee, 1891)

Habitus, dorsal view on Davisonia americana (Van Duzee, 1891): Dorsal. Female. (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view on Davisonia americana (Van Duzee, 1891): Dorsal. Female. (Observation).
Habitus, lateral view on Davisonia americana (Van Duzee, 1891): Lateral. Female. (Observation).
Head on Davisonia americana (Van Duzee, 1891): Head/Face. Female. (Observation).
Head on Davisonia americana (Van Duzee, 1891): head, dorsally. (Observation).
Head on Davisonia americana (Van Duzee, 1891): head, dorsally. (Observation).
Subgenital plate, ventral view on Davisonia americana (Van Duzee, 1891): genital capsule, ventrally. (Observation).
Aedeagus, lateral view on Davisonia americana (Van Duzee, 1891): Aedeagus, lateral view. (Observation).
Aedeagus, ventral view on Davisonia americana (Van Duzee, 1891): Aedeagus, ventral view. (Observation).
Ovipositor on Davisonia americana (Van Duzee, 1891): female pygofer, ventrally. (Observation).
Other on Davisonia americana (Van Duzee, 1891): Labels. For specimen used for face. dorsal and lateral pictures. (Observation).

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (11)

  • Cicadula punctifrons var. americana Van Duzee, 1891a: 169. (valid in Metcalf, 1967c: 2613)

    Lectotype; female; 97e1ef19-dee6-4142-8627-66f41e3ce4c8; deposited at: Iowa State University (ISUI); USA: New York, Lancaster, 12.VII.1889, E.P. Van Duzee coll.

  • Cicadula punctifrons var. americana Van Duzee, 1891 (subjective synonym of Cicadula punctifrons var. repleta Fieber, 1885) in Horváth, 1908c: 566.
  • Cicadula punctifrons var. americana Van Duzee, 1891 (subjective synonym of Cicada punctifrons Fallén, 1826) in Ribaut, 1952a: 61.
  • Davisonia americana (Van Duzee, 1891) in Metcalf, 1967c: 2612.

Nomenclature references (12)

  • Fieber, F.X. (1885a) Description des Cicadines d'Europe des genres Cicadula and Thamnotettix. (Traduit de l'allemand sur le manuscrit original, par F. Reiber) Avec des additions, par L. Lethierry. Revue d'Entomologie, 4, 40–110.
  • Van Duzee, E.P. (1891a) New North American Homoptera. -- III. The Canadian Entomologist, 23, 169–172.
  • Horváth, G. (1908c) Remarques sur quelques Hémiptères de l'Amérique du Nord. Annales Musei Historico-Naturalis Hungarici, 6, 555–569.
  • Van Duzee, E.P. (1916a) Check list of Hemiptera (excepting the Aphididae, Aleurodidae and Coccidae) of America North of Mexico. New York Entomological Society, New York, xi + 111.
  • Sanders, J.G. & DeLong, D.M. (1917a) The Cicadellidae (Jassoidea-Fam. Homoptera) of Wisconsin, with description of new species. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 10, 79–95 + pls. 8–9.
  • Dorst, H.E. (1937a) A revision of the leafhoppers of the Macrosteles group (Cicadula of authors) in America north of Mexico. Miscellaneous Publication of the United States Department of Agriculture, 271, 1–24.
  • Medler, J.T. (1943a) The leafhoppers of Minnesota. Homoptera: Cicadellidae. Technical Bulletin of the Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Minnesota, 155, 1–196 + 9 pls. [1942]
  • Oman, P.W. (1947a) The types of auchenorrhynchous Homoptera in the Iowa State College collection. Iowa State College Journal of Science, 21(2), 161–228.
  • Oman, P.W. (1949a) The Nearctic leafhoppers (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). A generic classification and check list. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Washington, 3, 1–253.
  • Ribaut, H. (1952a) Faune de France. 57. Homoptères Auchénorhynques. II. (Jassidae). Lechevalier, Paris, 474 pp.
  • Metcalf, Z.P. (1967c) General catalogue of the Homoptera. Fascicle VI. Cicadelloidea. Part 10. Euscelidae. Section III. Washington, D.C.: USDA, 2075–2695 pp.
  • Kwon, Y.J. & Kwon, J.H. (2022) Classification of the leafhopper genus Macrosteles Fieber and allied genera of the world (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae). National Institute of Biological Resources, Incheon, Korea, 372 pp.
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Latin: American

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
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Species1056