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Habitus, dorsal view on Burakia Koçak, 1981: Burakia imitata, dorsally (MNHN). (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view on Burakia Koçak, 1981: Burakia imitata, dorsally (MNHN). (Observation).
Habitus, lateral view on Burakia Koçak, 1981: Burakia imitata, laterally (MNHN). (Observation).

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (7)

  • Shirazia Dlabola, 1977b: 248.

    type species by original designation Shirazia eminens Dlabola, 1977

  • Shirazia Dlabola, 1977 (homonym of Shirazia Amsel, 1954)
  • Burakia Koçak, 1981 (classified as Scaphoideini Oman, 1943) in Zahniser & Dietrich, 2013a: 151.
  • Burakia Koçak, 1981 (incertae sedis in Scaphoideini Oman, 1943) in Zahniser, Dietrich, Cao, Dmitriev & Pinedo-Escatel, 2026: 26.

Nomenclature references (5)

  • Dlabola, J. (1977b) Neue iranische Cicadelliden-Gattungen und Arten mit faunistischen Erstfunden (Homoptera, Auchenorrhyncha). Acta Entomologica Bohemoslovaca, 74, 242–262.
  • Koçak, A.Ö. (1981a) List of the genera of Turkish Auchenorrhyncha (Homoptera), with some replacement names for genera existing in other countries. Priamus, 1(1), 30–40.
  • Oman, P.W., Knight, W.J. & Nielson, M.W. (1990a) Leafhoppers (Cicadellidae): a bibliography, generic check-list and index to the world literature 1956-1985. CAB International Institute of Entomology, Wallingford, UK. (iv) + 368 pp.
  • 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
  • Zahniser, J.N., Dietrich, C.H., Cao, Y.-H., Dmitriev, D.A. & Pinedo-Escatel, J.A. (2026) New tribal placements, reinstatements and synonymies in the leafhopper subfamily Deltocephalinae (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae). European Journal of Taxonomy, 1035, 1–51. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2026.1035.3171

Type

type species by original designation of Burakia Koçak, 1981

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

from Burak (Iran) + -ia (noun suffix)

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
Genus1012
Species2024