Genus
Gessius Distant, 1908
Descendants and synonyms
Nomenclature (5)
- Gessius Distant, 1908g: 301.
type species by original designation Gessius verticalis Distant, 1908
- Gessius Distant, 1908 (classified as Selenocephalinae Fieber, 1872) in Oman, Knight & Nielson, 1990a: 214.
- Parakrisna Cai & He, 2001 in Cai, He & Gu, 2001a: 192.
type species by original designation Parakrisna striata Cai & He, 2001
- Parakrisna Cai & He, 2001 (subjective synonym of Gessius Distant, 1908) in Li & Li, 2010: 569.
Nomenclature references (5)
- Distant, W.L. (1908g) Rhynchota. IV. Homoptera and appendix (Pt.). In The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. London: Taylor & Francis. pp. 1–419. [XV + 501 pp.]
- 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.
- Cai, P., He, J.-H. & Gu, X. (2001a) Homoptera: Cicadellidae. In H. Wu & C.-W. Pan (Eds.). Insects of Tianmushan National Nature Reserve. Science Press, Beijing. pp. 185–218. [in Chinese; xv + 764 p; 吴鸿, 潘承文. (2001) 天目山昆虫. 北京:科学出版社.]
- Li, J.-D. & Li, Z.-Z. (2010) Study of the taxonomy of the genus Gessius Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Iassinae) from China. Sichuan Journal of Zoology, 29(4), 569–573.
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:
after Gresius, a politician of the Eastern Roman Empire, brother of the Empress Aelia Eudocia
Image matrix
No descendants observations found
Stats
| Taxon | Valid names | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Extant | Fossil | Invalid | Total |
| Genus | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Species | 11 | 0 | 10 | 21 |