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genus

Tataka Dworakowska, 1974

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (5)

  • Tataka Dworakowska, 1974a: 174.

    type species by original designation Tataka boulardi Dworakowska, 1974

  • Orucyba Ghauri, 1975b: 491.

    type species by original designation Orucyba mollis Ghauri, 1975

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  • Tataka Dworakowska, 1974 (classified as Zyginellini Dworakowska, 1977) in Oman, Knight & Nielson, 1990a: 255.
  • Tataka Dworakowska, 1974 (classified as Typhlocybidae Kirschbaum, 1868) in Dietrich, 2013a: 520.

Type

Tataka boulardi Dworakowska, 1974 type species by original designation of Tataka Dworakowska, 1974

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

an arbitrary combination of letters (Dworakowska, I., 1974a:132); after Tataka, in the epic "Ramayana", a Yaksha princess-turned-demoness

Nomenclature references (5)

  • Dietrich, C.H. (2013a) South American leafhoppers of the tribe Typhlocybini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae). Zoologia, 30(5), 519–568.
  • Dworakowska, I. (1974a) Contribution à la faune du Congo (Brazzaville). Mission A. Villiers et A. Descarpentries. CIX. Hémiptères Typhlocybinae. Bulletin de l'Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire. Série A: Sciences Naturelles, 36(1), 132–243.
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  • Dworakowska, I. (1979c) The leafhopper tribe Zyginellini (Homoptera, Auchenorrhyncha, Cicadellidae, Typhlocybinae). Revue de Zoologie Africaine, 93(2), 299–331.
  • Ghauri, M.S.K. (1975b) Taxonomic notes on a collection of Cicadellidae from maize and light traps in the vicinity of crop fields in Nigeria. Journal of Natural History, 9(5), 481–493.
  • 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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