Species
Batracomorphus (Batracomorphus) icarus Knight, 1983
Descendants and synonyms
Nomenclature (1)
- Batracomorphus icarus Knight, 1983b: 85.
Holotype; male; No. 12,538; deposited at: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (BPBM); Australia, North Queensland: Kuranda, 13.iii.1956, J.L. Gressitt
Nomenclature references (2)
- Day, M.F.C. & Fletcher, M.J. (1994a) An annotated catalogue of the Australian Cicadelloidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy, 8(5), 1117–1288.
- 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:
after Icarus (Greek: Ἴκαρος), in Greek mythology, the son of Daedalus. Icarus and his father attempt to escape from Crete by means of wings that his father constructed from feathers and wax
Stats
| Taxon | Valid names | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Extant | Fossil | Invalid | Total |
| Species | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |