genus

Batracomorphus Lewis, 1834

Batracomorphus Lewis, 1834a: 51.
type species by original monotypy Batracomorphus irroratus Lewis, 1834
Batracomorphus Lewis, 1834 (classified as Iassides Walker, 1869) in Oman, Knight & Nielson, 1990a: 194.

Batracomorphus Lewis, 1834 (classified as Batracomorphini Krishnankutty, Dietrich, Dai & Siddappaji, 2016) in Krishnankutty, Dietrich, Dai & Siddappaji, 2016a: 590.

Batracomorphus irroratus Lewis, 1834 type species by original monotypy of Batracomorphus Lewis, 1834

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Greek: βάτραχος (frog) + μορφή (form, shape)

Krishnankutty, S.M., Dietrich, C.H., Dai, W. & Siddappaji, M.H. (2016a) Phylogeny and historical biogeography of leafhopper subfamily Iassinae (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) with a revised tribal classification based on morphological and molecular data. Systematic Entomology, 41, 580–595. https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12175
Lewis, R.H. (1834a) Descriptions of some new genera of British Homoptera. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1, 47–52.

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.