genus

Citorus Stål, 1866

Citorus Stål, 1866a: 110.
type species by original monotypy Selenocephalus decurtatus Stål, 1855
Citrous [sic] Stål, 1866 in Naudé, 1929c: 11.
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Citorus Stål, 1866 (classified as Penthimidae Kirschbaum, 1868) in Oman, Knight & Nielson, 1990a: 201.
Citorus Stål, 1866 (classified as Selenocephalidae Fieber, 1872) in Zahniser & Dietrich, 2013a: 166.

Selenocephalus decurtatus Stål, 1855 type species by original monotypy of Citorus Stål, 1866

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

after Citorus or Cythorus, a mountain of Paphlagonia, an ancient area of Anatolia

Linnavuori, R.E. (1959b) Revision of the Neotropical Deltocephalinae and some related subfamilies (Homoptera). Annales Zoologici Societatis Zoologicae-Botanicae Fennicae 'Vanamo', 20(1), 1–370.
Naudé, T.J. (1929c) A taxonomic and faunistic study of South African leafhoppers of the family Cicadellidae. Abstract of dissertation presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of doctor of philosophy in the Graduate School of the Ohio State University, 1923, 1–22.
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Stål, C. (1866a) Hemiptera Homoptera Latr. In Hemiptera Africana. Vol. 4, pp. 1–276 + pl. 1.
Zahniser, J.N. & Dietrich, C.H. (2013a) A review of the tribes of Deltocephalinae (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae). European Journal of Taxonomy, 45, 1–211.