genus

Mimotettix Matsumura, 1914

Mimotettix Matsumura, 1914a: 197.
type species by original designation Mimotettix kawamurae Matsumura, 1914
Mimotelliae [sic] Matsumura, 1914 in Distant, 1917a: 317.
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Mimotettix Matsumura, 1914 (classified as Deltocephalina Fieber, 1869) in Hamilton, 1975b: 488.
Mimotettix Matsumura, 1914 (classified as Scaphoideini Oman, 1943) in Zahniser & Dietrich, 2013a: 152.

Mimotettix kawamurae Matsumura, 1914 type species by original designation of Mimotettix Matsumura, 1914

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Greek: μίμος (imitator) + τέττιξ (cicada)

Distant, W.L. (1917a) Rhynchota. Part II: Suborder Homoptera. The Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905, under the leadership of Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner, M. A. The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 17, 273–322.
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.

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.
Zahniser, J.N. & Dietrich, C.H. (2013a) A review of the tribes of Deltocephalinae (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae). European Journal of Taxonomy, 45, 1–211.