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Habitus, dorsal view on Dixianus Ball, 1918: Dixianus utahnus, dorsal habitus (BMNH). (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view on Dixianus Ball, 1918: Dixianus utahnus, dorsal habitus (BMNH). (Observation).
Habitus, lateral view on Dixianus Ball, 1918: Dixianus utahnus, lateral habitus (BMNH). (Observation).
Head on Dixianus Ball, 1918: Dixianus utahnus, head, pronotum, and mesonotum, dorsally. (Observation).
Head on Dixianus Ball, 1918: Dixianus utahnus, face. (Observation).
Forewing on Dixianus Ball, 1918: Dixianus utahnus, forewing. (Observation).

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (4)

  • Phlepsius (Dixianus) Ball, 1918b: 387.

    type species by original designation Phlepsius utahnus Ball, 1909

  • Dixianus Ball, 1918 in Neave, 1939b: 133.
  • Phlepsius (Dixianus) Ball, 1918 (classified as Platymetopiina Haupt, 1929) in Hamilton, 1975b: 494.
  • Phlepsius (Dixianus) Ball, 1918 (classified as Circuliferina Emeljanov, 1962) in Zahniser & Dietrich, 2013a: 127.

Nomenclature references (4)

  • Ball, E.D. (1918b) The phlepsids of Mexico and Central America (Homoptera Cicadellinae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 11, 381–392.
  • 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.
  • Neave, S.A. (1939b) Nomenclator zoologicus; a list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758, to the end of 1935: Vol. 2. D-L. Zoological Society of London. London, 1025 pp.
  • Zahniser, J.N. & Dietrich, C.H. (2013a) A review of the tribes of Deltocephalinae (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae). European Journal of Taxonomy, 45, 1–211. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2013.45

Type

type species by original designation of Dixianus Ball, 1918

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Greek: διξός (doubtful) + -anus (related to)

Image matrix

No descendants observations found

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1012
Species1089