genus

Eupteryx Curtis, 1831

Eupteryx Curtis, 1831a: 192. (Official List of Generic Names in Zoological Nomenclature)
type species by subsequent designation Cicada picta Fabricius, 1794 in Curtis, 1837d: pl.640

Cicada picta Fabricius, 1794 type species by subsequent designation of Eupteryx Curtis, 1831

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Greek: ευ (true, good, typical) + πτέρυξ (wing)

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. (1837d) Eupteryx. In British entomology; being illustrations and descriptions of the genera of insects found in Great Britain and Ireland: containing coloured figures from nature of the most rare and beautiful species, and in many instances of the plants upon which they are found. Published by the Author, London. Vol. 14, Issue 160, pp. pl. 640.