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Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (23)

  • Centrotus monstrifer Walker, 1858a: 80.

    Lectotype; female; 0d64e000-3b1e-448b-9e10-30bae7806879; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Australia, New South Wales: Hunt River

  • Oxyrhachis ponderifer Walker, 1862a: 317.

    Holotype; male; 45198d56-db40-4218-9ea7-4052dc059a43; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Australia, Queensland: Moreton Bay

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  • Eutryonia gracilis Goding, 1926 (subjective synonym of Centrotus monstrifer Walker, 1858) in Evans, 1966a: 292.
  • Gelastorrhachis clavata Kirkaldy, 1906 (subjective synonym of Centrotus monstrifer Walker, 1858) in Evans, 1966a: 292.
Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Latin: monstrous, horrid, misshapen

Nomenclature references (13)

  • 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.
  • Buckton, G.B. (1901a) A monograph of the Membracidae. L. Reeve & Co., Limited. London, pp. i-x, 1–92, pls. 1–28, A-B.
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  • Distant, W.L. (1916d) Rhynchotal notes. -- LX. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (Ser. 8), 18, 19–44.
  • Evans, J.W. (1966a) The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand (Homoptera: Cicadelloidea and Cercopoidea). Memoirs of the Australian Museum, 12, 1–347.
  • Funkhouser, W.D. (1927f) General catalogue of the Hemiptera. Fascicle I. Membracidae. G. Horváth & H.M. Parshley (Eds.). Smith College, Northampton, Mass., U.S.A., XIV + 581 pp.
  • Goding, F.W. (1898a) A preliminary study of the Membracidae described from Australia and Tasmania. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 23, 85–90.
  • Goding, F.W. (1903a) A monograph of the Australian Membracidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 28, 2–41.
  • Goding, F.W. (1926c) New Membracidae, I. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 34, 243–246.
  • Goding, F.W. (1950a) The Old World Membracidae. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 58, 117–129.
  • Kirkaldy, G.W. (1906c) Leaf-hoppers and their natural enemies. (Pt. IX. Leaf-hoppers-Hemiptera). Report of work of the Experiment Station of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association. Entomological series, 1(9), 271–479.
  • Metcalf, Z.P. & Wade, V. (1965a) General catalogue of the Homoptera. A supplement to Fascicle I - Membracidae of the general catalogue of the Hemiptera. Membracoidea in two sections. Section I. Part 1 - Membracidae: Centrotinae, Platybelinae, Hoplophorioninae, Darninae. USA: Waverly Press, Inc., Baltimore, MD, VI + 743 p.
  • Walker, F. (1858a) Homoptera. In Insecta saudersiana: or characters of undescribed insects in the collection of William Wilson Saunders. Esq. John Van Voorst. London. pp. 1–117.
  • Walker, F. (1862a) Characters of undescribed species of Homoptera in the collection of F.P. Pascoe, F.L.S. The Journal of Entomology Descriptive and Geographical, 1, 303–319.

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