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Species

Eupteryx (Eupteryx) urticae (Fabricius, 1803)

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Habitus, dorsal view on Eupteryx (Eupteryx) urticae (Fabricius, 1803): Habitus (male). (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view on Eupteryx (Eupteryx) urticae (Fabricius, 1803): Habitus (male). (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view on Eupteryx (Eupteryx) urticae (Fabricius, 1803): Habitus. (Observation).
Head on Eupteryx (Eupteryx) urticae (Fabricius, 1803): Face. (Observation).
Nymph on Eupteryx (Eupteryx) urticae (Fabricius, 1803): (Observation).
Nymph on Eupteryx (Eupteryx) urticae (Fabricius, 1803): (Observation).
Nymph on Eupteryx (Eupteryx) urticae (Fabricius, 1803): (Observation).
Nymph on Eupteryx (Eupteryx) urticae (Fabricius, 1803): (Observation).
Pygofer, lateral view on Eupteryx (Eupteryx) urticae (Fabricius, 1803): Pygofer, lateral view. (Observation).
Subgenital plate, ventral view on Eupteryx (Eupteryx) urticae (Fabricius, 1803): Subgenital plate. (Observation).
Stylus on Eupteryx (Eupteryx) urticae (Fabricius, 1803): Stylus. (Observation).
Aedeagus, lateral view on Eupteryx (Eupteryx) urticae (Fabricius, 1803): Aedeagus, lateral view. (Observation).
Aedeagus, lateral view on Eupteryx (Eupteryx) urticae (Fabricius, 1803): Aedeagus, lateral view. (Observation).
Aedeagus, ventral view on Eupteryx (Eupteryx) urticae (Fabricius, 1803): Aedeagus, ventral view. (Observation).
Aedeagus, ventral view on Eupteryx (Eupteryx) urticae (Fabricius, 1803): Aedeagus, ventral view. (Observation).
Forewing on Eupteryx (Eupteryx) urticae (Fabricius, 1803): Forewing. (Observation).
Abdomen, sternal apodemes, ventral view on Eupteryx (Eupteryx) urticae (Fabricius, 1803): Abdomen, sternal apodemes, ventral view. (Observation).

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (44)

  • Cicada urticae Fabricius, 1803a: 77.

    Syntypes; 9861887c-d614-46af-9540-15f41caef116; deposited at: Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (ZMUC); Denmark: in Daniae, Urtica

  • Cicada vrticae [sic] (Fabricius, 1803) in Fabricius, 1803a: 77.
  • ... Show all ... (40)
  • Eupteryx octonotata (Hardy, 1850) in Hamilton, 1983e: 12.
  • Eupterix [sic] urticae (Fabricius, 1803) in Özgen, Gjonov & Karavin, 2024: 114.

Nomenclature references (27)

  • 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. (1837a) 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. J. Pigot and Co., Sherwood and Co., Simpkin and Marshall, London. Ed. 2, pp. 220–224. [vi + 294 columns]
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  • 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.
  • Dlabola, J. (1946b) Description de deux novelles especes et plusiers remarques sur les especes peu connues d'Europe Centrale. (Homopt. Auchenorrh). (IX). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, 24, 97–106.
  • Dworakowska, I. (1982a) Typhlocybini of Asia (Homoptera, Auchenorrhyncha, Cicadellidae). Entomologische Abhandlungen und Berichte aus dem Staatlichen Museum fur Tierkunde in Dresden., 45(6), 99–181.
  • Fabricius, J.C. (1803a) Rhyngota. In Systema rhyngotorum: secundum ordines, genera, species: adiectis synonymis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. C. Reichard. Brunsvigae. pp. 1–101, 315. [316 + 21 (index) pp.] https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.11644
  • Fieber, F.X. (1872a) Katalog der europäischen Cicadinen, nach Originalien mit Benützung der neuesten Literatur. Carl Gerold's Sohn. Wein, iv + 19 pp.
  • Germar, E.F. (1833a) Conspectus generum Cicadariarum. Revue Entomologique, publiée par Gustave Silbermann, 1, 174–184.
  • Hamilton, K.G.A. (1983e) Primary and secondary homonyms in the Cicadellidae. Tymbal, Auchenorrhyncha Newsletter, 2, 11–13.
  • Hardy, J. (1850a) Descriptions of some new British homopterous insects. Transactions of the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club, 1, 416–431.
  • Haupt, H. (1912a) Neurs und Kritisches über Arten und Varietäten einheimischer Homoptera. Berliner entomologische Zeitschrift, 56, 177–196. [1911]
  • Herrich-Schäffer, G.A.W. (1837a) Cicada fraxini, C. picta, C. undulata, Flata leporina, F. contaminata, Jassus paradoxus, J. croceus, Bythoscopus poecilus, B. adustus, B. scurra, B. notatus, B. varius, B. crenatus, B. larvatus, Issus nasutus, Typhlocyba jucunda, Flata pallida. In Deutschlands Insecten. Vol. 144, pp. 1–16.
  • Kloet, G.S. & Hincks, W.D. (1945a) Sub-order Homoptera. In A check list of British insects. T. Buncle & Co., Stockport, England. pp. 51–80. [lix + 483 pp.]
  • Latreille, P.A. (1804a) Division seconde. Famille quarante-huitième. Cicadaires; Cicadariae. In Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes: ouvrage faisant suite aux oeuvres de Leclerc de Buffon, et partie du cours complet d'histoire naturelle rédigé par C. S. Sonnini, membre de plusieurs Sociétés savantes. F. Dufart. Paris. Vol. 12, pp. 293–337 + pls. xcvi-xcvii. [5-424 pp.]
  • Metcalf, Z.P. (1968a) General catalogue of the Homoptera. Fascicle VI. Cicadelloidea. Part 17. Cicadellidae. Washington, D.C.: USDA, VII+1513 pp.
  • Nast, J. (1972a) Palaearctic Auchenorrhyncha (Homoptera). An annotated check list. Polish Scientific Publishers, Warszawa, 550 pp.
  • Oshanin, V.T. (1907b) Catalogue des Homoptères (Auchenorhynques et Psyllides) du gouvernement de St.-Pétersbourg [Список Homoptera (sectio Auchenorrhyncha et fam. Psyllidae) С.-Петербургской губернии]. Ezhegodnik Zoologicheskago Muzeya Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk, 12, 213–252. [in Russian]
  • Rey, C. (1894c) Remarques en passant. L'Echange. Revue Linnéenne, 10(112), 45–46.
  • Ribaut, H. (1936b) Faune de France. 31. Homoptères Auchénorhynques. I. (Typhlocybidae). Paris: Lechevalier, III+231 pp.
  • Sahlberg, J.R. (1871a) Öfversigt af Finlands och den Skandinaviska hälfons Cicadariae. I. Notiser ur Sällskapets pro Fauna et Flora Fennica Förhandlingar, 9(12), 1–506 + pls. 1–2.
  • Thomson, C.G. (1862a) 2: A afdelningen Homoptera. In Skandinaviens inseckter: en handbok i entomologi, till allmänna läroverkens tjenst. Malmström & Komp's Boktryckeri. Lund. pp. 122–128. [xx + 392 pp. + 1 pl.]
  • Wagner, W. (1935a) Die Zikaden der Nordmark und Nordwest-Deutschlands. Verhandlungen des Vereins für Naturwissenschaftliche Heimatforschung zu Hamburg, 24, 1–44.
  • Walker, F. (1851b) List of the specimens of homopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part III. London: Edward Newman, Vol. 3, 637–907.
  • Woodworth, C.W. (1888b) The genus Cicadula, Zett. Psyche: A Journal of Entomology, 5, 75–76.
  • Zetterstedt, J.W. (1837a) Insecta Lapponica. Leopoldi Voss, Lipsiae, Vol. 1, Issue 2, vi + 10–1139 columns. [1840; Ordo III. Hemiptera: 286-306]
  • Zimsen, E. (1964) Hemiptera. In The type materials of I.C. Fabricius. Munksgaard, Copenhagen. pp. 281–354. [656 pp.]
  • Özgen, I., Gjonov, I.V. & Karavin, M. (2024) New data on early spring Auchenorrhyncha species in Bozdağ Montain (Turkey). Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies, 12(4), 112–114. https://doi.org/10.22271/j.ento.2024.v12.i4b.9354
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

on Urtica L. (Urticaceae)

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