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Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (3)

  • Cafixia Webb, 1983b: 249.

    type species by original designation Idiocerus hewitti Cogan, 1916

  • Caffixia [sic] Webb, 1983 in Stiller & Maseko, 2026: 61.
  • Caffixia [sic] Webb, 1983 (misspelling of Cafixia Webb, 1983) in Stiller & Maseko, 2026: 61.

Nomenclature references (2)

  • Stiller, M. & Maseko, Z. (2026) A new leafhopper genus and species from the Magaliesberg, South Africa. Zootaxa, 5881(1), 47–65. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5881.1.2
  • Webb, M.D. (1983b) The Afrotropical idiocerine leafhoppers (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology, 47(3), 211–257.

Type

type species by original designation of Cafixia Webb, 1983

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

from southern Africa, derived from Arabic word kafir (non-believer), now considered as exonym and an ethnic slur + -ixia (arbitrary suffix)

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No descendants observations found

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1012
Species1023