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Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (5)

  • Prosapia Fennah, 1949f: 606.

    type species by original designation Cercopis bicincta Say, 1831

  • Prosapia Fennah, 1949 (classified as Cercopida Leach, 1815) in Metcalf, 1961a: 208.
  • Prosapia Fennah, 1949 (classified as Ischnorhinini Schmidt, 1920) in Hamilton, 2016a: 205.
  • Prosapia Fennah, 1949 (classified as Tomaspidinae Jacobi, 1921) in Crispolon, Soulier-Perkins & Guilbert, 2023: 511.

Nomenclature references (5)

  • Fennah, R.G. (1949f) New genera and species of Neotropical Cercopidae (Homoptera). Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (Ser. 12), 1, 605–620. [1948]
  • Metcalf, Z.P. (1961a) General catalogue of the Homoptera. Fascicle VII. Cercopoidea. Part 2. Cercopidae. USA: Waverly press, Inc., Baltimore, MD, VII + 607 pp.
  • Fennah, R.G. (1979a) Revisionary notes on the New World genera of cercopid froghoppers (Homoptera: Cercopoidea). II. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 69, 267–273.
  • Hamilton, K.G.A. (2016a) Neotropical spittlebugs related to Neaenini (Hemiptera, Cercopidae) and the origins of subfamily Cercopinae. Zootaxa, 4169(2), 201–250. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4169.2.1
  • Crispolon, E.S., Jr., Soulier-Perkins, A. & Guilbert, E. (2023) Molecular phylogeny of Cercopidae (Hemiptera, Cercopoidea). Zoologica Scripta, 52(5), 494–516. https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12597

Type

type species by original designation of Prosapia Fennah, 1949

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Greek: πρό (before) + σάπιος (unsound, corrupted)

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1001
Species1705673
Subspecies701926