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Genus

Flexamia DeLong, 1926

Head on Flexamia DeLong, 1926: Flexamia reflexa, face. (Observation).
Head on Flexamia DeLong, 1926: Flexamia reflexa, face. (Observation).
Head on Flexamia DeLong, 1926: Flexamia reflexa, head, pronotum, and mesonotum, dorsally. (Observation).
Forewing on Flexamia DeLong, 1926: Flexamia reflexa, forewing. (Observation).
Hind wing on Flexamia DeLong, 1926: Flexamia reflexa, hindwing. (Observation).

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (14)

  • Deltocephalus (Flexamia) DeLong, 1926d: 22. (valid in Kamitani, 1999a: 80)

    type species by original designation Deltocephalus reflexus Osborn & Ball, 1897

  • Flexamia (Secopennis) DeLong & Sleesman, 1929a: 85.

    type species by original designation Deltocephalus slossoni Ball, 1905

  • Flexamia (Secopennis) DeLong & Sleesman, 1929 (classified as Paralimnini Distant, 1908) in Kamitani, 1999a: 80.
  • Flexamia (Secopennis) DeLong & Sleesman, 1929 (classified as Paralimnusaria Distant, 1908) in Zahniser & Dietrich, 2013a: 139.

Nomenclature references (11)

  • Distant, W.L. (1908g) Rhynchota. IV. Homoptera and appendix (Pt.). In The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. London: Taylor & Francis. pp. 1–419. [XV + 501 pp.]
  • DeLong, D.M. (1926d) A monographic study of the North American species of the genus Deltocephalus. University Studies. The Ohio State University. Contributions in zoology and entomology. 2 (13): i-x, 1-129.
  • DeLong, D.M. & Sleesman, J.P. (1929a) New genera and subgenera form the genus Deltocephalus. A study of the internal male genitalia of the American species and their bearing upon taxonomy. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 22, 81–114.
  • 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.
  • Neave, S.A. (1940b) In 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. 4. Q-Z. Zoological Society of London. London, 758 pp.
  • Wene, G.P. & Dominick, C.B. (1941a) A checklist of the Cicadellidae at Chatham, Virginia, with thirteen new records for the State. Virginia Journal of Science, 2, 122–123.
  • Young, D.A., Jr. & Beirne, B.P. (1958a) A taxonomic revision of the leafhopper genus Flexamia and a new related genus. Technical Bulletin of the United States Department of Agriculture, 1173, 1–53.
  • Linnavuori, R.E. (1959b) Revision of the Neotropical Deltocephalinae and some related subfamilies (Homoptera). Annales Zoologici Societatis Zoologicae-Botanicae Fennicae 'Vanamo', 20(1), 1–370.
  • 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.
  • Kamitani, S. (1999a) The phylogeny of the genera in the tribes Deltocephalini, Paralimnini, and their allies (Homoptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae). Esakia, 39, 65–108.
  • 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 Flexamia DeLong, 1926

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Latin: flexus (bending) + Greek: ένας, μια (one)

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
Genus1056
Species44068112