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Species

Oxyrhachis lagosensis (Distant, 1914)

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (6)

  • Neoxiphistes lagosensis Distant, 1914m: 515.

    Lectotype; female; fa0e80a7-ad8a-4811-bc7c-9def062eae79; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Nigeria: Dec. 8. 1911, 9 crowded on same stem, Lagos, 70 m. E. Forest, c. 1 m. E. of Oni. Wet S. c. mid Mch.-Dec. 8. 1911. W.A. Lamborn

  • Xiphistes lagoensis [sic] (Distant, 1914) in Goding, 1932a: 231.
  • Xiphistes lagosensis (Distant, 1914) in Metcalf & Wade, 1965b: 1408.
  • Oxyrhachis lagosensis (Distant, 1914) in McKamey, 1998a: 226.

Nomenclature references (6)

  • Distant, W.L. (1914m) Homoptera (Membracidae and Jassidae) collected in the Lagos District by W. A. Lamborn. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1913, 515–520.
  • Goding, F.W. (1932a) The Membracidae of Africa. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 40, 205–238.
  • Capener, A.L. (1962a) The taxonomy of the African Membracidae. Part 1. The Oxyrhachinae. Entomology Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture of the Republic of South Africa, 6, 1–164.
  • Metcalf, Z.P. & Wade, V. (1965b) General catalogue of the Homoptera. A supplement to Fascicle I - Membracidae of the general catalogue of the Hemiptera. Membracoidea in two sections. Section II. Part 1 - Membracidae (continued): Smiliinae, Tragopinae, Membracinae. Part 2 - Aetalionidae. Part 3 - Biturritiidae. Part 4 - Nicomiidae. USA: Waverly press, Inc., Baltimore, MD, 744–1552 pp.
  • Broomfield, P.S. (1971a) A catalogue of the Membracid types (Homoptera: Membracidae) in the British Museum (Natural History). In Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology. British Museum (Natural History) Entomology. Vol. 25, Issue 8, 325–386 pp.
  • McKamey, S.H. (1998a) Taxonomic catalogue of the Membracoidea (exclusive of leafhoppers): second supplement to fascicle I – Membracidae of the General Catalogue of the Hemiptera. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 60, 1–377.
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

from Lagos (Nigeria)

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
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Species1045