Genus

Leptobelus Stål, 1866

Descendants and synonyms

Leptobelus Stål, 1866a: 90.
type species by subsequent designation Centrotus dama Germar, 1835 in Distant, 1908h: 15
Leptobolus [sic] Stål, 1866 in Kirby, 1891a: 166.
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Loptobellus [sic] Stål, 1866 in Ahmad, Yasmeen & Khan, 1980a: 24.
Loptobellus [sic] Stål, 1866 (misspelling of Leptobelus Stål, 1866) in Ahmad, Yasmeen & Khan, 1980a: 24.

Ahmad, I., Yasmeen, N. & Khan, A.A. (1980a) Generic and supergeneric keys with reference to a check list of Membracoid fauna of Pakistan and Bangladesh (Homoptera: Auchenorhyncha [sic]) with notes on their distribution and food plants. Supplement of the Entomological Society of Karachi, 3, 1–56. [1978]
Distant, W.L. (1908h) Order Rhynchota. Suborder Homoptera. In Insecta Transvaaliensia. A contribution to a knowledge of the entomology of South Africa. F. Edwards. London. Vol. 9, pp. 205–228 + pls. XX-XXI.

Kirby, W.F. (1891a) Catalogue of the described Hemiptera Heteroptera and Homoptera of Ceylon, based on the collection formed (chiefly at Pundaloya) by Mr. E. Ernest Green. The Journal of the Linnean Society. Zoology, 24, 72–176.
Stål, C. (1866a) Hemiptera Homoptera Latr. In Hemiptera Africana. Vol. 4, pp. 1–276 + pl. 1.

type species by subsequent designation of Leptobelus Stål, 1866

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Greek: λεπτός (thin, slender, delicate) + βέλος (arrow, dart, quick moving)

No descendants observations found