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Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (3)

  • Ahimia Dworakowska, 1979c: 304.

    type species by original designation Ahimia albonigra Dworakowska, 1979

  • Ahimia Dworakowska, 1979 (classified as Zyginellini Dworakowska, 1977) in Oman, Knight & Nielson, 1990a: 187.
  • Ahimia Dworakowska, 1979 (classified as Typhlocybidae Kirschbaum, 1868) in Dietrich, 2013a: 520.

Type

Ahimia albonigra Dworakowska, 1979 type species by original designation of Ahimia Dworakowska, 1979

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No descendants observations found
Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

an arbitrary combination of letters (Dworakowska, I., 1979c:299); Sanskrit: ahimsa (not to injure, compassion), referring to key virtue in Indian religions, strong focus of Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) politics + -ia (noun suffix)

Nomenclature references (3)

  • Dietrich, C.H. (2013a) South American leafhoppers of the tribe Typhlocybini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae). Zoologia, 30(5), 519–568.
  • Dworakowska, I. (1979c) The leafhopper tribe Zyginellini (Homoptera, Auchenorrhyncha, Cicadellidae, Typhlocybinae). Revue de Zoologie Africaine, 93(2), 299–331.
  • 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.

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
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