Genus
Sextius Stål, 1866
Descendants and synonyms
Nomenclature (3)
- Sextius Stål, 1866a: 88.
type species by subsequent designation Centrotus virescens Fairmaire, 1847 in Goding, 1903a
- Pterosticta Buckton, 1903a: 229.
type species by subsequent designation Pterosticta rubrilinea Buckton, 1903 in Metcalf & Wade, 1965a: 204
- Pterosticta Buckton, 1903 (subjective synonym of Sextius Stål, 1866) in Distant, 1916d: 32.
Nomenclature references (5)
- Buckton, G.B. (1903a) A monograph of the Membracidae. L. Reeve & Co., Limited. London, pp. 181–296 + pls. XXXIX-LX.
- Distant, W.L. (1916d) Rhynchotal notes. -- LX. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (Ser. 8), 18, 19–44.
- 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.
- Stål, C. (1866a) Hemiptera Homoptera Latr. In Hemiptera Africana. Vol. 4, pp. 1–276 + pl. 1.
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:
after Lucius Sextius Lateranus, who as tribune of the plebs from 376 to 367 BC, prevented the election of the annual magistrates, until the passage of the lex Licinia Sextia
Image matrix
No descendants observations found
Stats
| Taxon | Valid names | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Extant | Fossil | Invalid | Total |
| Genus | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Species | 12 | 0 | 10 | 22 |