genus
Deois Fennah, 1949
Descendants and synonyms
Nomenclature (3)
- Deois Fennah, 1949f: 607.
type species by original designation Cercopis terrea Germar, 1821
- Deois Fennah, 1949 (classified as Cercopida Leach, 1815) in Metcalf, 1961a: 174.
- Deois Fennah, 1949 (classified as Tomaspidinae Jacobi, 1921) in Fennah, 1979a
Nomenclature references (3)
- Fennah, R.G. (1949f) New genera and species of Neotropical Cercopidae (Homoptera). Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (Ser. 12), 1, 605–620.
- Fennah, R.G. (1979a) Revisionary notes on the New World genera of cercopid froghoppers (Homoptera: Cercopoidea). II. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 69, 267–273.
- Metcalf, Z.P. (1961a) General catalogue of the Homoptera. Fascicle VII. Cercopoidea. Part 2. Cercopidae. USA: Waverly press, Inc., Baltimore, MD, VII + 607 pp.
Type
type species by original designation of
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:
after Deois, in Greek mythology, a patronimic name of Persephone after her mother Deo (Greek: Δηώ), Demeter
Image matrix
No descendants observations found
Stats
| Taxon | Valid names | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Extant | Fossil | Invalid | Total |
| genus | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| subgenus | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| species | 25 | 0 | 48 | 73 |
| subspecies | 2 | 0 | 9 | 11 |