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Genus

Darma Walker, 1858

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (12)

  • Darma Walker, 1858a: 102. (valid in Nielson & Freytag, 2017a: 534)

    type species by original monotypy Darma bipunctata Walker, 1858

  • Darma Walker, 1858 (subjective synonym of Scaris Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828) in Evans, 1947a: 216.
  • Polana (Validapona) DeLong, 1979 (subjective synonym of Scaris Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828) in Gonçalves, Mejdalani, Dietrich & Takiya, 2026: 24.
  • Polana (Validapona) DeLong, 1979 (subjective synonym of Darma Walker, 1858) in Dmitriev, 2026

Nomenclature references (13)

  • DeLong, D.M. & Freytag, P.H. (1972a) Studies of the Gyponinae: A key to the known genera and descriptions of five new genera. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 45(2), 218–235.
  • DeLong, D.M. (1979g) Two new subgenera and three new species of Polana (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) from Peru and Colombia. Entomological News, 90(4), 187–190.
  • Dmitriev, D.A. (2026) Personal communication.
  • Domahovski, A.C. & Cavichioli, R.R. (2020) Three new species of Polana (Varpulana) (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Gyponini) from Brazil, with updated key to males and taxonomic notes on the female genitalia. Zootaxa, 4767(4), 501–517. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4767.4.1
  • Evans, J.W. (1947a) A natural classification of leaf-hoppers (Jassoidea, Homoptera). Part 3: Jassidae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 98, 105–271.
  • Gonçalves, C.C. (2016) Análise filogenética de Gyponini Stål, 1870 (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Iassinae). Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, xxiv + 290 pp. PhD thesis.
  • Gonçalves, C.C., Mejdalani, G.L.F., Dietrich, C.H. & Takiya, D.M. (2026) Phylogeny‐based generic delimitations of the diverse leafhopper tribe Gyponini, including the establishment of a new tribe of Iassinae (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae). Systematic Entomology, 51(3), 1–29. https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.70062
  • Le Peletier, A.L.M., de Saint-Fargeau & Audinet-Serville, J.G. (1828a) Tettigometre, Tettigometra and Tettigone, Tettigonia. (Scaphinote - Zyg). In Encyclopédie méthodique: Histoire naturelle. Entomologie, ou Histoire naturelle des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Insectes. Paris, Agasse. Vol. 10, Issue 2, pp. 600–613. [1825; 345-829 pp.]
  • Metcalf, Z.P. (1949b) Tettigellidae and Gyponidae (Homoptera) of Kartabo, Bartica District, British Guiana. Zoologica. Scientific Contributions of the New York Zoological Society, 34, 259–279.
  • Nielson, M.W. & Freytag, P.H. (2017a) A synoptic catalogue of vacillated nomenclature usages in the literature of family-group names Gyponinae Stål and Scarinae Amyot & Serville, genera Gypona Germar and Scaris Le Peletier & Serville, synonyms, and use of Docalidia ferruginea (Fabricius) (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 143, 533–555.
  • Oman, P.W., Knight, W.J. & Nielson, M.W. (1990a) Leafhoppers (Cicadellidae): a bibliography, generic check-list and index to the world literature 1956-1985. CAB International Institute of Entomology, Wallingford, UK. (iv) + 368 pp.
  • Tesón, A. (1971a) Notas sobre Giponinos neotropicales: I. (Homoptera, Cicadellidae). Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina, 33(1-4), 105–108.
  • Walker, F. (1858a) Homoptera. In Insecta saudersiana: or characters of undescribed insects in the collection of William Wilson Saunders. Esq. John Van Voorst. London. pp. 1–117.

Type

type species by original monotypy of Darma Walker, 1858

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

after Darma River (India)

Image matrix

No descendants observations found

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1045
Species79038117