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

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.

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. [in English] Available at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/342872#page/200/mode/1up

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.
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.

type species by original monotypy of Megophthalmus Curtis, 1833

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

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

No descendants observations found