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World Auchenorrhyncha Database (WAD)
Species

Macrosteles slossoni (Van Duzee, 1893)

Head on Macrosteles slossoni (Van Duzee, 1893): head, dorsally. (Observation).
Head on Macrosteles slossoni (Van Duzee, 1893): head, dorsally. (Observation).
Head on Macrosteles slossoni (Van Duzee, 1893): head, dorsally. (Observation).
Subgenital plate, ventral view on Macrosteles slossoni (Van Duzee, 1893): genital capsule, ventrally. (Observation).
Stylus on Macrosteles slossoni (Van Duzee, 1893): Stylus. (Observation).
Aedeagus, lateral view on Macrosteles slossoni (Van Duzee, 1893): Aedeagus, lateral view. (Observation).
Aedeagus, ventral view on Macrosteles slossoni (Van Duzee, 1893): Aedeagus, ventral view. (Observation).
Ovipositor on Macrosteles slossoni (Van Duzee, 1893): female pygofer, ventrally. (Observation).

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (7)

  • Cicadula slossoni Van Duzee, 1893a: 281. (valid in Beirne, 1952a: 220)

    Syntype; male; 55b45061-ea8b-4ce9-b433-612b466c492f; deposited at: California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California (CASC); USA: Lancaster, New York, July 12th, 1889, Van Duzee coll.. Syntype; female; 5bda8f24-c970-477f-b8b8-0c7a9f8c0618; deposited at: California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California (CASC); USA: High Bridge, New York City, June, Mr. E.B. Southwick. Syntype; female; 1e5a03b1-4202-47cf-9f83-d75a3b07cd36; deposited at: California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California (CASC); USA, New Hampshire: summit of Mt. Washington, Mrs. Annie Trumbull Slosson

  • Macrosteles slossoni (Van Duzee, 1893) in DeLong & Caldwell, 1937c: 57.
  • Macrosteles (Macrosteles) slossoni (Van Duzee, 1893) in Beirne, 1952a: 220.
  • Cicadula slossonae [sic] (Oman, 1947) (unjustified emendation for Cicadula slossoni Van Duzee, 1893) in Kwon & Kwon, 2022: 161.

Nomenclature references (6)

  • Beirne, B.P. (1952a) The Nearctic species of Macrosteles (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). The Canadian Entomologist, 84, 208–232.
  • DeLong, D.M. & Caldwell, J.S. (1937c) Check list of the Cicadellidae (Homoptera) of America, north of Mexico. Ohio State University, Columbus, IV + 93 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.
  • 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.
  • Van Duzee, E.P. (1893a) New North American Homoptera. -- No. VI. The Canadian Entomologist, 25, 280–285.
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

in honor of Annie Trumbull Slosson (1838-1926), an American author and entomologist, one of the collectors of the type series

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Species1045