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- Megophthalminae Kirkaldy, 1906
subfamily
Megophthalminae Kirkaldy, 1906
Descendants and synonyms
Nomenclature (2)
- Megophthalminae Kirkaldy, 1906c: 296.
type genus Megophthalmus Curtis, 1833
- Megophthalminae Kirkaldy, 1906 (validated as replacement for family-group name based on genus synonym before 1961 for Paropidae Dohrn, 1859) in Oshanin, 1906a: 47.
Type
Megophthalmus Curtis, 1833 type genus of Megophthalminae Kirkaldy, 1906
Nomenclature references (2)
- Kirkaldy, G.W. (1906c) Leaf-hoppers and their natural enemies. (Pt. IX. Leaf-hoppers-Hemiptera). Report of work of the Experiment Station of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association. Entomological series, 1(9), 271–479.
- Oshanin, V.T. (1906a) Verzeichnis der palaearktischen Hemipteren, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung ihrer Verteilung im Russischen Reiche. II. Band. Homoptera. I. Lieferung. Ann. Mus. Zool. St. Petersburg. Buchdr. der K. Akademie der wissenschaften. St. Petersburg. 11: i-xvi, 1-192.
Stats
| Names | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Total | Valid | Invalid |
| subfamily | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| tribe | 10 | 4 | 6 |
| subtribe | 13 | 6 | 7 |
| genus | 122 | 81 | 41 |
| subgenus | 18 | 6 | 12 |
| species | 1294 | 745 | 549 |
| subspecies | 33 | 18 | 15 |