genus

Megophthalmus Curtis, 1833

Descendants and synonyms

Megophthalmus Curtis, 1831a: 193. (nomen nudum: no description)
Megophthalmus Curtis, 1833: 193.
type species by original monotypy Megophthalmus bipunctatus Curtis, 1833
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Melanophthalmus [sic] Curtis, 1833 in Ødegaard, Brandrud, Hansen, Hanssen, Öberg & Sverdrup-Thygeson, 2011: 82.
Melanophthalmus [sic] Curtis, 1833 (misspelling of Megophthalmus Curtis, 1833) in Ødegaard, Brandrud, Hansen, Hanssen, Öberg & Sverdrup-Thygeson, 2011: 82.

Megophthalmus bipunctatus Curtis, 1833 type species by original monotypy of Megophthalmus Curtis, 1833

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Greek: μέγας (very large) + ὀφθαλμός (eye)

Curtis, J. (1831a) Homoptera. In A guide to an arrangement of British insects: being a catalogue of all the named species hitherto discovered in Great Britain and Ireland. F. Westley and A. H. Davis, M. Sherwood and Co., Simpkin and Marshall, London. Issues 6-7, pp. 189–194. [1929; 256 columns]
Curtis, J. (1833) Characters of some undescribed genera and species, indicated in the "Guide to an Arrangement of British Insects". The Entomological Magazine, 1(2), 186–199.
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Walker, F. (1851b) List of the specimens of homopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part III. London: Edward Newman, Vol. 3, 637–907.
Ødegaard, F., Brandrud, T.E., Hansen, L.O., Hanssen, O., Öberg, S. & Sverdrup-Thygeson, A. (2011, August) Sandområder- et hotspot-habitat. Sluttrapport under ARKO-prosjektets periode II. In NINA Rapport. Vol. 712, 82 pp.