genus
Ahimia Dworakowska, 1979
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
Image matrix
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.
Stats
| Taxon | Valid names | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Extant | Fossil | Invalid | Total |
| genus | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| species | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |