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World Auchenorrhyncha Database (WAD)
Species

Flexamia sandersi (Osborn, 1907)

Habitus, dorsal view on Flexamia sandersi (Osborn, 1907): Dorsal. Male. (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view on Flexamia sandersi (Osborn, 1907): Dorsal. Male. (Observation).
Habitus, lateral view on Flexamia sandersi (Osborn, 1907): Lateral. Male. (Observation).
Head on Flexamia sandersi (Osborn, 1907): head, dorsally. (Observation).
Head on Flexamia sandersi (Osborn, 1907): head, dorsally. (Observation).
Head on Flexamia sandersi (Osborn, 1907): Head/Face. (Observation).
Pygofer, lateral view on Flexamia sandersi (Osborn, 1907): genital capsule, laterally. (Observation).
Pygofer, lateral view on Flexamia sandersi (Osborn, 1907): genital capsule, laterally. (Observation).
Subgenital plate, ventral view on Flexamia sandersi (Osborn, 1907): genital capsule, ventrally. (Observation).
Subgenital plate, ventral view on Flexamia sandersi (Osborn, 1907): genital capsule, ventrally. (Observation).
Ovipositor on Flexamia sandersi (Osborn, 1907): female pygofer, ventrally. (Observation).
Ovipositor on Flexamia sandersi (Osborn, 1907): female pygofer, ventrally. (Observation).
Other on Flexamia sandersi (Osborn, 1907): Labels. Labels for the specimen used for the Male dorsal, lateral and face images. (Observation).

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (5)

  • Deltocephalus sandersi Osborn, 1907a: 164.
  • Deltocephalus (Flexamia) sandersi Osborn, 1907 in DeLong, 1926d: 27.
  • Flexamia bidentata DeLong, 1935a: 155.

    Holotype; male; 289b68db-a4fe-43e3-a797-8b37337b145c; deposited at: Ohio State University (OSU); Wellesley, Mass., October 6, 1920.

  • Flexamia bidentata DeLong, 1935 (subjective synonym of Deltocephalus sandersi Osborn, 1907) in Young & Beirne, 1958a: 38.

Nomenclature references (5)

  • 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.
  • 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. (1935a) Some new species of deltocephaloid leaf hoppers (Homoptera, Cicadellidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 28, 154–159.
  • Osborn, H. (1907a) Descriptions of new forms of Jassidae. Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences, 10, 163–166.
  • 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.
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

in honor of J.G. Sanders, an American entomologist, who specialized in Auchenorrhyncha

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