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Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (3)

  • Bythoscopus buxtoni Osborn, 1934a: 168. (nomen dubium in Knight, 1983b: 205)

    Holotype; female; 13fb31c8-e310-49c9-95e1-e94d02deb1e1; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Samoa: Upolu, Malololelei, 610 m, 25.xi.1924, P.A. Buxton & G.H. Hopkins

  • Iassus buxtoni (Osborn, 1934) in Metcalf, 1966c: 47.
  • Batracomorphus buxtoni (Osborn, 1934) in Knight, 1983b: 205.

Nomenclature references (3)

  • Osborn, H. (1934a) Part II. Hemiptera. Cicadellidae (Jassidae). Insects of Samoa and other Samoan Terrestrial Arthropoda, 2(4), 163–192.
  • Metcalf, Z.P. (1966c) General catalogue of the Homoptera. Fascicle VI. Cicadelloidea. Part 15. Iassidae. Washington, D.C.: USDA, II+229 pp.
  • Knight, W.J. (1983b) The leafhopper genus Batracomorphus (Cicadellidae, Iassinae) in the eastern Oriental and Australian regions. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology, 47(2), 27–210.
Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

in honor of Patrick Alfred Buxton (1892–1955), a British medical entomologist, one of the collectors of the type specimen

Stats

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