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Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (1)

  • Batracomorphus ixion Knight, 1983b: 129.

    Holotype; male; No. 12,552; deposited at: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (BPBM); Papua New Guinea, East New Britain: Gazelle Peninsula, Mt Sinewit, 900 m, 5-14.xi.1962, J. Sedlacek

Nomenclature references (2)

  • 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.
  • Day, M.F.C. & Fletcher, M.J. (1994a) An annotated catalogue of the Australian Cicadelloidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy, 8(5), 1117–1288.
Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

after Ixion (Greek: Ἰξίων), in Greek mythology, a king of the Lapiths, the most ancient tribe of Thessaly, and a son of Ares

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Species1001