genus
Osbornellus Ball, 1932
Descendants and synonyms
Nomenclature (3)
- Osbornellus Ball, 1932a: 17.
type species by original designation Scaphoideus auronitens Provancher, 1889
- Osbornellus Ball, 1932 (classified as Scaphoideini Oman, 1943) in Zahniser & Dietrich, 2013a: 152.
- Osbornellus Ball, 1932 (incertae sedis in Scaphoideini Oman, 1943) in Zahniser, Dietrich, Cao, Dmitriev & Pinedo-Escatel, 2026: 26.
Type
Scaphoideus auronitens Provancher, 1889 type species by original designation of Osbornellus Ball, 1932
Image matrix
No descendants observations found
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:
in honor of Herbert Osborn (1856–1954), an entomologist who specialized in Cicadellidae, Ohio State University (USA, Ohio, Columbus) + -ellus (diminutive suffix)
Nomenclature references (3)
- Ball, E.D. (1932a) New genera and species of leafhoppers related to Scaphoideus. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 22(1), 9–19.
- 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
Stats
| Taxon | Valid names | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Extant | Fossil | Invalid | Total |
| genus | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| subgenus | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| species | 132 | 0 | 75 | 207 |
| subspecies | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 |