Genus
Cafixia Webb, 1983
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.
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)
Image matrix
No descendants observations found
Stats
| Taxon | Valid names | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Extant | Fossil | Invalid | Total |
| Genus | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Species | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |