Genus

Stegelytra Mulsant & Rey, 1855

Descendants and synonyms

Stegelytra Mulsant & Rey, 1855a: 224.
type species by original monotypy Stegelytra alticeps Mulsant & Rey, 1855
Iberia Kirkaldy, 1907d: 40.
type species by original designation Stegelytra bolivari Signoret, 1880

Stegelyta [sic] Mulsant & Rey, 1855 in Özgen & Karsavuran, 2009a: 222.
Stegelyta [sic] Mulsant & Rey, 1855 (misspelling of Stegelytra Mulsant & Rey, 1855) in Özgen & Karsavuran, 2009a: 222.

Mulsant, M.É. & Rey, C. (1855a) Description de quelques Hémiptères-Homoptères nouveaux ou peu connus. Annales de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon, 2(2), 197–249, 426 + pl. 1.
Kirkaldy, G.W. (1907d) Leaf-Hoppers - Supplement (Hemiptera). Report of work of the Experiment Station of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association. Entomological series, 3, 1–186, i-iii, pls. 1–20.

Wei, C., Zhang, Y.-L. & Webb, M.D. (2006b) New synonymy in the leafhopper genus Stegelytra Mulsant and Rey and description of a new genus (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Stegelytrinae). Journal of Natural History, 40(35-37), 2057–2069.
Özgen, I. & Karsavuran, Y. (2009a) Diyarbakir, Elaziğ ve Mardin illeri bağ alanlarinda bulunan Cicadellidae (Homoptera) türleri [The Cicadellidae (Homoptera) species which found at the vineyards in Diyarbakır, Elazığ and Mardin provinces (Turkey)]. Türkiye Entomoloji Dergisi, 33(3), 217–240. [in Turkish]

type species by original monotypy of Stegelytra Mulsant & Rey, 1855

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Greek: στέγος (roof) + ἔλυτρον (sheath, elytron) (referring to the slightly elevated roof-like outer margin of the forewing clavus)

No descendants observations found