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genus

Japananus Ball, 1931

Habitus, dorsal view: Japananus hyalinus, dorsal habitus (INHS). (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view: Japananus hyalinus, dorsal habitus (INHS). (Observation).
Habitus, lateral view: Japananus hyalinus, lateral habitus (INHS). (Observation).
Pygofer, lateral view: genital capsule, laterally. (Observation).
Subgenital plate: genital capsule, ventrally. (Observation).
Head: Japananus hyalinus, head, pronotum, and mesonotum, dorsally. (Observation).
Forewing: forewing. (Observation).
Forewing: Japananus hyalinus, forewing. (Observation).

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (6)

  • Japananus Ball, 1931d: 218.

    type species by original designation Platymetopius hyalinus Osborn, 1900

  • Japanus [sic] Ball, 1931 in DeLong & Caldwell, 1937c: 24.
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  • Japananus Ball, 1931 (classified as Scaphytopiini Oman, 1943) in Oman, Knight & Nielson, 1990a: 221.
  • Japananus Ball, 1931 (classified as Opsiina Emeljanov, 1962) in Zahniser & Dietrich, 2013a: 132.

Type

Platymetopius hyalinus Osborn, 1900 type species by original designation of Japananus Ball, 1931

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

from Japan + -anus (related to)

Nomenclature references (5)

  • Ball, E.D. (1931d) Some new North American genera and species in the group formerly called Platymetopius (Rhynchota, Homoptera). The Canadian Entomologist, 63, 216–222.
  • 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.
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  • 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.
  • Oman, P.W., Knight, W.J. & Nielson, M.W. (1990a) Leafhoppers (Cicadellidae): a bibliography, generic check-list and index to the world literature 1956-1985. CAB International Institute of Entomology, Wallingford, UK. (iv) + 368 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.

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