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Laevicephalus melsheimerii (Fitch, 1851)

Pygofer, lateral view: !! display not done !! on Laevicephalus melsheimerii (Fitch, 1851): genital capsule, laterally. (Observation).
Pygofer, lateral view: !! display not done !! on Laevicephalus melsheimerii (Fitch, 1851): genital capsule, laterally. (Observation).
Subgenital plate: !! display not done !! on Laevicephalus melsheimerii (Fitch, 1851): genital capsule, ventrally. (Observation).
Ovipositor: !! display not done !! on Laevicephalus melsheimerii (Fitch, 1851): female pygofer, ventrally. (Observation).

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (17)

  • Amblycephalus melsheimerii Fitch, 1851a: 61.

    Syntypes; male, female; No. 805, 806; deposited at: New York State Museum (NYSM); U.S.A., New York: common on grass

  • Iassus melsheimerii (Fitch, 1851) in Walker, 1851b: 895.
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  • Laevicephalus vicillinus [sic] Crumb, 1915 in Oman, 1949a: 165.
  • Laevicephalus vicillinus [sic] Crumb, 1915 (misspelling of Deltocephalus vicilinus Crumb, 1915) in Oman, 1949a: 165.
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

in honor of the Reverend Frederick Valentine Melsheimer (1749-1814), a Lutheran clergyman and early American entomologist, called the "Father of American Entomology" by successor Thomas Say

Nomenclature references (13)

  • Crumb, S.E. (1915a) Some new species of Jassoidea. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 8, 189–198.
  • 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.
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  • 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.
  • Dohrn, F.A. (1859a) Homoptera. In Catalogus Hemipterorum. Herausgegeben von dem entomologischen Vereine zu Stettin, Herrcke & Lebeling, Stettin. Vol. 1859, pp. 56–93. [102 pp.]
  • Fitch, A. (1851a) Catalogue with references and descriptions of the insects collected and arranged for the State Cabinet of Natural History. Annual Report of the Regents of the University on the Condition of the State Cabinet of Natural History, and the Historical and Antiquarian Collection, 4, 43–69.
  • Oman, P.W. (1949a) The Nearctic leafhoppers (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). A generic classification and check list. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Washington, 3, 1–253.
  • Osborn, H. (1928b) Leafhoppers of Ohio (Cicadellidae). Bulletin of the Ohio Biological Survey, 3(4), 199–374.
  • Sanders, J.G. & DeLong, D.M. (1920a) Descriptions and figures of eleven confused species of Deltocephalus infesting grasses. Bulletin of the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, 3(15), 3–14 + pls. 1–4.
  • Van Duzee, E.P. (1890c) Synonymy of the Homoptera described by Say, Harris and Fitch. Psyche: A Journal of Entomology, 5, 387–391.
  • Van Duzee, E.P. (1890g) New California Homoptera. Entomologica Americana, 6, 91–96.
  • Van Duzee, E.P. (1894a) A catalogue of the described Jassoidea of North America. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 21, 245–317.
  • Walker, F. (1851b) List of the specimens of homopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part III. London: Edward Newman, Vol. 3, 637–907.
  • Walker, F. (1852a) Supplement. In List of the specimens of homopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. London, Edward Newman. Vol. 4, pp. 1119–1188.

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