Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (6)

  • Scaphoideus atlantus Ball, 1932a: 14.

    Holotype; male; c92388b1-24fc-438d-8446-8bacbb52578c; deposited at: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (USNM); U.S.A.: Glassboro, New Jersey, July 29, 1927

  • Scaphoideus atlanticus [sic] Ball, 1932 in DeLong, 1939a: 35.
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  • Scaphoideus motus DeLong, 1949 (subjective synonym of Scaphoideus atlantus Ball, 1932) in Barnett, 1977a: 497.
  • Scaphoideus (Scaphoideus) atlantus Ball, 1932 in Barnett, 1977a: 497.
Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

from Ancient Greek (Ἄτλαντες, Atlantes, the nominative plural form of Ἄτλας, Átlas), in Greek mythology a Titan condemned to hold up the heavens or sky for eternity

Nomenclature references (4)

  • Ball, E.D. (1932a) New genera and species of leafhoppers related to Scaphoideus. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 22(1), 9–19.
  • Barnett, D.E. (1977a) A revision of the Nearctic species of the genus Scaphoideus (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society (Philadelphia), 102(4), 485–593. [1976]
  • DeLong, D.M. (1939a) A review of the genus Scaphoideus. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 41, 33–45.
  • DeLong, D.M. (1949a) A new name for a species of Scaphoideus previously placed under the name luteolus V. D. The Ohio Journal of Science, 49(2), 83–84.

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