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genus

Commellus Osborn & Ball, 1902

Head: Commellus colon, head, pronotum, and mesonotum, dorsally. (Observation).
Head: Commellus colon, head, pronotum, and mesonotum, dorsally. (Observation).
Forewing: Commellus colon, forewing. (Observation).
Hind wing: 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.
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  • 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.

Type

Athysanus comma Van Duzee, 1892 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)

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.
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  • 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.

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