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Habitus, dorsal view on Betsileonas Kirkaldy, 1903: Betsileonas marmorata. (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view on Betsileonas Kirkaldy, 1903: Betsileonas marmorata. (Observation).

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (5)

  • Thaumastus Stål, 1864b: 67.

    type species by original designation Ledra marmorata Blanchard, 1840

  • Thaumastus Stål, 1864 (homonym of Thaumastus Martens, 1860)
  • Thaumastus Stål, 1864 (replaced by Betsileonas Kirkaldy, 1903) in Kirkaldy, 1903f: 13.
  • Betsileonas Kirkaldy, 1903 (classified as Platyjassini Evans, 1954) in Dietrich, Magalhães & Takiya, 2020: 7.

Nomenclature references (3)

  • Stål, C. (1864b) Hemiptera nonnulla nova vel minus cognita. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, (4 série), 4(1), 47–68.
  • Kirkaldy, G.W. (1903f) Einige neue und wenig bekannte Rhynchoten. Wiener Entomologische Zeitung, 22, 13–17.
  • Dietrich, C.H., De Magalhães, R.B. & Takiya, D.M. (2020) Revision of the endemic Malagasy leafhopper tribe Platyjassini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Iassinae). European Journal of Taxonomy, 695, 1–89. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2020.695

Type

type species by original designation of Betsileonas Kirkaldy, 1903

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

after Betsileo, a highland ethnic group of Madagascar

Image matrix

No descendants observations found

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1012
Species1034