Holotype; female; 8193d40a-98a7-4f41-b5db-8ab235edfb6c; deposited at: Entomological Institute, Hokkaido University (EIHU); Aomori, Honshu
Paramesus orientalis Lindberg, 1929b: 4.
Paramesus japonica Matsumura, 1914 in Ishihara, 1953b: 45.
Paralimnus (Paragygrus) major Emeljanov, 1964c: 423.
Holotype; male; 7a837475-f3e1-45a3-b6ba-84c2602c5575; deposited at: Russian Academy of Sciences, Zoological Institute, St. Petersburg (ZIN); Russia: Chita Oblast, Lake Bolshoy Chindant, 30.VII-1.VIII.1963, Emeljanov
Paralimnus major Emeljanov, 1964f: 41.
Holotype; male; 7a837475-f3e1-45a3-b6ba-84c2602c5575; deposited at: Russian Academy of Sciences, Zoological Institute, St. Petersburg (ZIN); Russia: Chita Oblast, Lake Bolshoy Chindant, 30.VII-1.VIII.1963, Emeljanov
Paralimnus (Paragygrus) major Emeljanov, 1964 (subjective synonym of Paramesus orientalis Lindberg, 1929) in Anufriev & Emeljanov, 1968a: 1331.
Paralimnus orientalis (Lindberg, 1929) in Emeljanov, 1969d: 378.
Paralimnus (Paragygrus) orientalis (Lindberg, 1929) in Emeljanov, 1977b: 166.
Paragygrus orientalis (Lindberg, 1929) in Galinichev, 2014: 218.
Paragygrus orientalis (Lindberg, 1929) in Mozaffarian & Wilson, 2016a: 27.
Paralimnus (Paragygrus) major Emeljanov, 1964 (subjective synonym of Paramesus japonicus Matsumura, 1914) in Okudera & Hayashi, 2026: 162.
Paramesus orientalis Lindberg, 1929 (subjective synonym of Paramesus japonicus Matsumura, 1914) in Okudera & Hayashi, 2026: 162.
Paralimnus major Emeljanov, 1964 (synonymic homonym of Paralimnus (Paragygrus) major Emeljanov, 1964) in Dmitriev, 2026
Nomenclature references (12)
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Dmitriev, D.A. (2026) Personal communication.
Emeljanov, A.F. (1964c) Suborder Cicadinea (Auchenorrhyncha). [Подотряд цикадовые]. In G.Y. Bey-Bienko (Ed.). Keys to the Insects of the European USSR. Vol. 1, pp. 337–437. [in Russian; translated into English in Keys to the Insects of the European USSR, Israel Program for Scientific Translations, Jerusalem, 1967, Vol. 1, pp. 421–551]
Emeljanov, A.F. (1964f) New Auchenorrhyncha from Kazakhstan (Homoptera). [Новые цикадовые из Казахстана (Homoptera, Auchenorrhyncha)]. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR, 34, 3–51. [in Russian]
Emeljanov, A.F. (1969d) Cicadina (Homoptera, Auchenorrhyncha) of Central Kazakhstan [Цикадовые (Homoptera, Auchenorrhyncha) Центрального Казахстана.]. In Phytocoenoses and Fauna of the Steppes and Deserts of Central Kazakhstan. Pt. 3. Composition and Analysis of the Fauna of the Western Part of Central Kazakhstan. pp. 358–381. [in Russian]
Emeljanov, A.F. (1977b) Leafhoppers (Homoptera, Auchenorrhyncha) from the Mongolian People's Republic based mainly on materials of the Soviet-Mongolian zoological expeditions (1967-1969). [Цикадовые (Homoptera, Auchenorrhyncha) Монгольской Народной Республики преимущественно по материалам Советско-Монгольских зоологических экспедиций 1967-1969 годов]. In Insects of Mongolia. Leningrad: Nauka. Vol. 5, pp. 96–195. [in Russian]
Galinichev, A.V. (2014) Cicadas (Hemiptera, Cicadina) of the Urals: Fauna Composition, Ecology and Chorology. [Цикадовые (Hemiptera, Cicadina) Урала: состав фауны, экология и хорология]. Nizhni Novgorod State University, 1–307 pp. PhD thesis. [in Russian]
Ishihara, T. (1953b) A tentative check list of the superfamily Cicadelloidea of Japan (Homoptera). Scientific Reports of the Matsuyama Agricultural College, 11, 1–72.
Lindberg, H. (1929b) Zur Kenntnis der ostasiatischen Homopteren. Weitere Ergebnisse einer von y. Wuorentaus im Jahre 1917 unternommenen Forschungsreise. Commentationes Biologicae. Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 3(6), 1–14 + 1 pl.
Matsumura, S. (1914a) Die Jassinen und einige neue Acocephalinen Japans. Journal of the College of Agriculture, Tohoku Imperial University, Sapporo, Japan., 5(7), 165–240.
Mozaffarian, F. & Wilson, M.R. (2016a) A checklist of the leafhoppers of Iran (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae). Zootaxa, 4062(1), 1–63.
Okudera, S. & Hayashi, M. (2026) Taxonomic study of the leafhopper genus Paralimnus Matsumura, 1902 (Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae) from Japan. Japanese Journal of Systematic Entomology.
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