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Habitus, dorsal view on Confucius Distant, 1907: Confucius cameroni (male). (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view on Confucius Distant, 1907: Confucius cameroni (male). (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view on Confucius Distant, 1907: Confucius dispar (female). (Observation).

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (3)

  • Confucius Distant, 1907g: 191. (valid in Metcalf, 1962d: 84)

    type species by original designation Confucius granulatus Distant, 1907

  • Confucius Distant, 1907 (subjective synonym of Ledropsis White, 1844) in Kato, 1931e: 436.
  • Confucius Distant, 1907 (classified as Ledrides Fairmaire, 1855) in Jones & Deitz, 2009a: 32.

Nomenclature references (4)

  • Distant, W.L. (1907g) Contributions to a knowledge of the Ledrinae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique, 51, 185–197.
  • Kato, M. (1931e) [Japanese Ledridae.]. Dobutsugaku Zasshi. Zoological Society of Japan, 43, 431–440.
  • Metcalf, Z.P. (1962d) General catalogue of the Homoptera. Fascicle VI. Cicadelloidea. Part 4. Ledridae. Washington, D.C., USDA, 147 pp.
  • Jones, J.R. & Deitz, L.L. (2009a) Phylogeny and systematics of the leafhopper subfamily Ledrinae (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae). Zootaxa, 2186, 1–120.

Type

type species by original designation of Confucius Distant, 1907

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

after Confucius (551–479 BC), a Chinese teacher and philosopher

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
Genus1001
Species110920