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World Auchenorrhyncha Database (WAD)
Species

Nesoclutha phryne (Kirkaldy, 1907)

Australian grass leaffhopper
Aedeagus, lateral view on Nesoclutha phryne (Kirkaldy, 1907): Aedeagus, lateral view. (Observation).
Aedeagus, lateral view on Nesoclutha phryne (Kirkaldy, 1907): Aedeagus, lateral view. (Observation).

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (8)

  • Nesosteles phryne Kirkaldy, 1907d: 66.

    Lectotype; male; 1684e778-bfa1-4189-be18-fad7ce9fdbb0; deposited at: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (BPBM); Australia, New South Wales: Sydney, Mittagong, I.1905, coll. Koebele

  • Eusceloscopus pallidus Evans, 1942g: 147.

    Holotype; male; d387e61b-0514-4604-8aea-0e7d0e8e97a5; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Australia, Western Australia: Yanchep, 51.5 km N of Perth, 24.xi.-2.xii.1935, R.E. Turner

  • Eusceloscopus pallidus Evans, 1942 (subjective synonym of Nesosteles phryne Kirkaldy, 1907) in Day & Fletcher, 1994a: 1220.
  • Nesoclutha phryne (Kirkaldy, 1907) in Day & Fletcher, 1994a: 1220.

Nomenclature references (7)

  • 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. (1942g) New leaf-hoppers (Homoptera, Jassoidea) from Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia, 27, 143–163. [1941]
  • Evans, J.W. (1947e) A new leaf-hopper from Victoria (Homoptera, Jassidae). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne, 15, 126–127.
  • 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.
  • Knight, W.J. (1975a) Deltocephalinae of New Zealand (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 2(2), 169–208.
  • 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.
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

after Phryne, Greek (Φρύνη, Phryne): ancient Greek courtesan

Stats

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