Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (3)

  • Distantasca Dworakowska, 1972i: 25.

    type species by original designation Empoasca terminalis Distant, 1918

  • Empoasca (Distantasca) Dworakowska, 1972 in Dworakowska & Viraktamath, 1975a: 529.
  • Distantasca Dworakowska, 1972 in Liu, Fletcher & Zhang, 2014a: 91.

Type

Empoasca terminalis Distant, 1918 type species by original designation of Distantasca Dworakowska, 1972

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

in honor of William Lucas Distant (1845–1922), an entomologist who specialized in Hemiptera, British Museum (Natural History) (U.K., London) + Empoasca

Nomenclature references (3)

  • Dworakowska, I. & Viraktamath, C.A. (1975a) On some Typhlocybinae from India (Auchenorrhyncha, Cicadellidae). Bulletin de l'Academie Polonaise des Sciences, Serie des Sciences Biologiques, 23(8), 521–530.
  • Dworakowska, I. (1972i) On some Oriental and Ethiopian genera of Empoascinii (Auchenorrhyncha, Cicadellidae, Typhlocybinae). [Некоторые ориентальные и эфиопские роды трибы Empoascinii (Auchenorrhyncha, Cicadellidae, Typhlocybinae)]. Bulletin de l'Academie Polonaise des Sciences, Serie des Sciences Biologiques, 20(1), 25–34.
  • Liu, Y., Fletcher, M.J. & Zhang, Y.-L. (2014a) Reinstatement of Distantasca Dworakowska (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Empoascini) as a valid genus with new species and new combinations. Zootaxa, 3869(1), 90–96.

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species2202446