genus

Wolfella Spinola, 1850

Descendants and synonyms

Wolfella Spinola, 1850a: 57.
type species by subsequent monotypy Wolfella caternaultii Spinola, 1850
Wolffella [sic] Spinola, 1850 in Haglund, 1899a: 57.

Wolffella [sic] Spinola, 1850 (misspelling of Wolfella Spinola, 1850) in Haglund, 1899a: 57.
Wolfella Spinola, 1850 (classified as Wolfellini Zhang & Tang, 2025) in Zhang & Tang, 2025: 112.

Wolfella caternaultii Spinola, 1850 type species by subsequent monotypy of Wolfella Spinola, 1850

No descendants observations found

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

in honor of Johann Jacob Bremi-Wolf (1791–1857), a Swiss entomologist who specialized in Diptera + -ella (diminutive suffix)

Haglund, C.J.E. (1899a) Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Insektenfauna von Kamerun. 4. Verzeichniss der von yngve Sjöstedt im nordwestlichen Kamerungebiete eingesammelten Hemipteren. Öfversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, 56, 49–71.
Spinola, M. (1850a) Tavola sinottica dei generi spettanti alla classe degle insetti artroidignati, Flemiptera, Linn. Latr. -Rhyngota, Fab.-Rhynchota, Burm. Memorie della Società Italiana delle Scienze residente in Modena, 25(1), 1–60. [reprinted in 1852 with different page numbers]

Zhang, Y.-L. & Tang, J. (2025) Systematic study of the World Hylicinae (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae). Northwest A&F University Press, 275 pp.