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Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (1)

  • Batracomorphus orestes Knight, 1983b: 152.

    Holotype; male; d1695c51-af3e-4bbd-9c0f-9c27af96703f; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); New Guinea, Irian Jaya: Humboldt Bay District, Bewani Mts, 400 m, vii.1937, W. Stuber

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 Orestes (Greek: Ὀρέστης), in Greek mythology, son of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon

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