genus

Stymphalus Stål, 1866

Stymphalus Stål, 1866a: 121.
type species by original monotypy Platymetopius rubrolineatus Stål, 1855
Stymphalus Stål, 1866 (classified as Paraboloponini Ishihara, 1953) in Hamilton, 1975b: 481.

Stymphalus Stål, 1866 (classified as Scaphytopiini Oman, 1943) in Oman, Knight & Nielson, 1990a: 254.
Stymphalus Stål, 1866 (classified as Vartini Zahniser & Dietrich, 2013) in Zahniser & Dietrich, 2013a: 177.

Platymetopius rubrolineatus Stål, 1855 type species by original monotypy of Stymphalus Stål, 1866

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

after Stymphalus (Greek: Στύμφαλος), in Greek myphology, a son of Elatus and Laodice, brother of Pereus, Aepytus, Ischys, and Cyllen

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.
Oman, P.W., Knight, W.J. & Nielson, M.W. (1990a) Leafhoppers (Cicadellidae): a bibliography, generic check-list and index to the world literature 1956-1985. CAB International Institute of Entomology, Wallingford, UK. (iv) + 368 pp.

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.