genus

Osbornellus Ball, 1932

Habitus, dorsal view: Osbornellus auronitens, dorsal habitus (INHS). (Observation).

Habitus, lateral view: Osbornellus auronitens, lateral habitus (INHS). (Observation).

Head: Osbornellus auronitens, head, pronotum, and mesonotum, dorsally. (Observation).

Aedeagus, ventral view: Aedeagus, ventral view. (Observation).

Aedeagus, lateral view: Aedeagus, lateral view. (Observation).

Forewing: Osbornellus auronitens, forewing. (Observation).

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (2)

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.

Type

Scaphoideus auronitens Provancher, 1889 type species by original designation of Osbornellus Ball, 1932

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 (2)

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.

Stats

	Names
Rank	Total	Valid	Invalid
genus	1	1	0
subgenus	5	3	2
species	203	132	71
subspecies	6	2	4