Species

Batracomorphus (Batracomorphus) thestor Knight, 1983

Descendants and synonyms

Edijassus pallidus Evans, 1972b: 657.
Holotype; male; BISHOP 9775; deposited at: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (BPBM); Papua New Guinea, Western Highlands Province, NE New Guinea: 11 km S. of Mt Hagen town, 2200-2300 m, 21.v.1963, J. Sedlacek
Batracomorphus thestor Knight, 1983b: 194.
Holotype; male; BISHOP 9775; deposited at: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (BPBM); Papua New Guinea, Western Highlands Province, NE New Guinea: 11 km S. of Mt Hagen town, 2200-2300 m, 21.v.1963, J. Sedlacek

Edijassus pallidus Evans, 1972 (secondary homonym of Eurinoscopus pallidus Evans, 1936) in Knight, 1983b: 194.
Edijassus pallidus Evans, 1972 (replaced by Batracomorphus thestor Knight, 1983) in Knight, 1983b: 194.

Evans, J.W. (1936) The Bythoscopidae of Australia (Homoptera, Jassoidea). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 1935, 61–83. [1935]
Evans, J.W. (1972b) Some leafhoppers from New Guinea, Australia and Thailand belonging to the subfamily Jassinae and a new genus from New Guinea referred to a new subfamily, the Acostemminae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects, 14(4), 647–662.

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 Thestor (Greek: Θέστωρ), in Greek mythology, a son of Idmon and Laothoe, grandson of Apollo

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
Taxon	Valid names
Rank	Extant	Fossil	Invalid	Total
Species	1	0	1	2