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Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (1)

  • Batracomorphus menelaus Knight, 1983b: 172.

    Holotype; male; 9faccef5-030c-4071-8b87-c0bdca34c759; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); New Guinea: Papua New Guinea, Mafulu, 1220 m, i.1934, L.E. Cheesman

Nomenclature references (1)

  • 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 Menelaus (Greek: Μενέλαος, from μένος "vigor, rage, power" + λαός "people"), in Greek mythology, a king of Mycenaean Sparta, the husband of Helen of Troy, and the son of Atreus and Aerope

Stats

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