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Head on Commellus Osborn & Ball, 1902: Commellus colon, head, pronotum, and mesonotum, dorsally. (Observation).
Head on Commellus Osborn & Ball, 1902: Commellus colon, head, pronotum, and mesonotum, dorsally. (Observation).
Forewing on Commellus Osborn & Ball, 1902: Commellus colon, forewing. (Observation).
Hind wing on Commellus Osborn & Ball, 1902: Commellus colon, hindwing. (Observation).

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (7)

  • Athysanus (Commellus) Osborn & Ball, 1902a: 245.

    type species by original designation Athysanus comma Van Duzee, 1892

  • Athysanus (Comellus [sic]) Osborn & Ball, 1902 in Crumb, 1911a: 236.
  • Commellus Osborn & Ball, 1902 in Schulze, Kükenthal & Heider, 1927b: 768.
  • Athysanus (Commellus) Osborn & Ball, 1902 (classified as Paralimnusaria Distant, 1908) in Zahniser & Dietrich, 2013a: 137.

Nomenclature references (5)

  • Crumb, S.E. (1911a) The Jassoidea of Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, 24, 232–238.
  • Osborn, H. & Ball, E.D. (1902a) A review of the North American species of Athysanus (Jassidae). The Ohio Naturalist, 2, 231–256.
  • Schulze, F.E., Kükenthal, W.G. & Heider, K. (1927b) Charybs-Cornel. In Nomenclator animalium generum et subgenerum; im auftrage der Preussischen akademie der wissenschaften zu Berlin. Vol. 2, Issue 7, pp. 637–796.
  • Van Duzee, E.P. (1914c) Nomenclatural and critical notes on Hemiptera. The Canadian Entomologist, 46, 377–389.
  • 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 Commellus Osborn & Ball, 1902

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Athysanus comma Van Duzee, 1892; from Latin: comma (comma, punctuation mark) + -ellus (diminutive suffix)

Image matrix

No descendants observations found

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1034
Species701421