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Forewing: !! display not done !! on Prescottia Ball, 1932: Prescottia lobata, forewing. (Observation).
Forewing: !! display not done !! on Prescottia Ball, 1932: Prescottia lobata, forewing. (Observation).
Head: !! display not done !! on Prescottia Ball, 1932: Prescottia lobata, head, pronotum, and mesonotum, dorsally. (Observation).

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (3)

  • Prescottia Ball, 1932a: 16.

    type species by original designation Scaphoideus lobatus Van Duzee, 1894

  • Prescottia Ball, 1932 (classified as Platymetopiina Haupt, 1929) in Hamilton, 1975b: 495.
  • Prescottia Ball, 1932 (incertae sedis in Scaphoideini Oman, 1943) in Zahniser, Dietrich, Cao, Dmitriev & Pinedo-Escatel, 2026: 26.

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.
  • 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.
  • 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 Prescottia Ball, 1932

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

from Prescott (USA, Arizona) + -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.
Taxon Valid names
Rank Extant Fossil Invalid Total
genus1001
species3047