Species
Batracomorphus (Batracomorphus) tarpeia Knight, 1983
Descendants and synonyms
Nomenclature (1)
- Batracomorphus tarpeia Knight, 1983b: 132.
Holotype; male; No. 12,555; deposited at: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (BPBM); Papua New Guinea, New Britain: Silanga, Nakanai Mts, 150 m, 1.viii.1956, E.J. Ford Jr
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 Tarpeia, in Roman mythology, a daughter of the Roman commander Spurius Tarpeius, a Vestal virgin who betrayed the city of Rome to the Sabines
Stats
| Taxon | Valid names | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Extant | Fossil | Invalid | Total |
| Species | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |