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Species

Anchistrotus discontinua (Walker, 1858)

Habitus, dorsal view on Anchistrotus discontinua (Walker, 1858): (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view on Anchistrotus discontinua (Walker, 1858): (Observation).
Habitus, lateral view on Anchistrotus discontinua (Walker, 1858): (Observation).
Habitus, lateral view on Anchistrotus discontinua (Walker, 1858): (Observation).

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (12)

  • Combophora discontinua Walker, 1858b: 157. (valid in Boulard, 1983: 275)

    Lectotype; female; 56 84; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Brazil, Amazonas: Ega, now Tefé

  • Combophora discontinua Walker, 1858 (subjective synonym of Combophora minor Fairmaire, 1847) in Butler, 1878a: 354.
  • Anchistrotus buctoni Goding, 1929 (subjective synonym of Combophora discontinua Walker, 1858) in Evangelista, 2012: 94.
  • Omolon discontinua (Walker, 1858) in Evangelista, 2012: 94.

Nomenclature references (12)

  • Fabricius, J.C. (1803a) Rhyngota. In Systema rhyngotorum: secundum ordines, genera, species: adiectis synonymis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. C. Reichard. Brunsvigae. pp. 1–101, 315. [316 + 21 (index) pp.] https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.11644
  • Walker, F. (1858b) Supplement. List of the specimens of homopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. London: Order of Trustees, Suppl. 307 pp.
  • Butler, A.G. (1878a) On various genera of the homopterous family Membracidae, with descriptions of new species and a new genus in the collection of the British Museum. In Cistula Entomologica. London. Vol. 2, pp. 337–361.
  • Goding, F.W. (1929b) New Membracidae, VI. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 37, 11–12.
  • Goding, F.W. (1929c) New Membracidae, VIII. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 37, 167–168.
  • Goding, F.W. (1929e) The Membracidae of South America and the Antilles. IV. Subfamilies Hoplophorioninae, Darninae, Smiliinae, Tragopinae (Homoptera). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 55, 197–330.
  • Funkhouser, W.D. (1951a) Homoptera. Fam. Membracidae. In P. Wytsman (Ed.). Genera Insectorum. Bruxelles, Desmet-Verteneuil. Vol. 208, pp. 1–383. + pls. XIV. [1950-1952]
  • 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.
  • Boulard, M. (1983) Sur deus Anchistrotus et la mutilation naturelle du pronotum chez les Membracides de ce genre [Hom.]. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France, 88(3-4), 274–283.
  • McKamey, S.H. (1997a) Nomenclatural changes in the Membracidae and Aetalionidae (Hemiptera: Membracoidea): species-group names and Sphongophorus Fairmaire, revised status. Steenstrupia, 22, 1–11. [1996]
  • 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.
  • Evangelista, O. (2012) Systematics and phylogenetic analysis of the treehopper subfamily Heteronotinae Goding, 1926 (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Membracidae). Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, 181 pp. PhD thesis. [in Portuguese]
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

English: discontinuous

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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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RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Species1056