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Species

Oxyrhachis vetusta Walker, 1851

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (10)

  • Oxyrhachis vetusta Walker, 1851a: 507.

    Holotype; female; c33cd0b8-6219-4ad3-97d9-8f1427672c3b; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal: Port Natal, now Durban

  • Daunus pallidus Buckton, 1903a: 227.

    Holotype; male; 7cbb228b-0825-40c9-843a-ccac5f8af539; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK);

  • Daunus pallidus Buckton, 1903 (subjective synonym of Oxyrhachis vetusta Walker, 1851) in Capener, 1962a: 73.
  • Xiphistes australasiae Distant, 1916 (subjective synonym of Oxyrhachis vetusta Walker, 1851) in Capener, 1962a: 74.

Nomenclature references (10)

  • Thunberg, C.P. (1822a) Dissertatio entomologica de Hemipteris rostratis Capensibus. Part I. Upsaliae: Excudebant Regiae Academiae Typographi, 1–9 pp. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.9281
  • Walker, F. (1851a) List of the specimens of homopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part II. London: Edward Newman, Vol. 2, 261–636 pp. + 3–4 pls.
  • Buckton, G.B. (1903a) A monograph of the Membracidae. L. Reeve & Co., Limited. London, pp. 181–296 + pls. XXXIX-LX.
  • 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.
  • Distant, W.L. (1916d) Rhynchotal notes. -- LX. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (Ser. 8), 18, 19–44.
  • Capener, A.L. (1951a) Sexually dimorphic Membracidae from southern Africa. Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 14, 152–164.
  • Goding, F.W. (1951a) The Old World Membracidae. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 58, 251–268.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Day, M.F.C. & Fletcher, M.J. (1994a) An annotated catalogue of the Australian Cicadelloidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy, 8(5), 1117–1288.
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Latin: old, ancient, established

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