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Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (11)

  • Tropidoscyta gibbera Stål, 1869a: 46.
  • Tropidoscyta americana Goding, 1893a: 469.
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  • Tylopelta brevis Van Duzee, 1908 (subjective synonym of Tropidoscyta americana Goding, 1893) in Goding, 1928e: 220.
  • Tropidoscyta americana Goding, 1893 (subjective synonym of Tropidoscyta gibbera Stål, 1869) in Strümpel, 1974a: 532.
Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Latin: humpbacked

Nomenclature references (8)

  • Fowler, W.W. (1894b) Order Rhynchota: Suborder Hemiptera-Homoptera. In Biologia Centrali-Americana; or, Contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America. Porter. London. Vol. 2, Issue 1, pp. 1–24.
  • Funkhouser, W.D. (1913a) Homologies of the wing veins of the Membracidae. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 6, 74–97.
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  • Goding, F.W. (1893a) Bibliographical and synonymical catalogue of the described Membracidae of North America. Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History, 3, 391–482.
  • Goding, F.W. (1928e) Membracidae of South America and Antilles, III. Subfamily Membracinae. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 36, 201–234.
  • Haviland, M.D. (1925a) The Membracidae of Kartabo, Bartica District, British Guiana, with descriptions of new species and bionomical notes. Zoologica. Scientific Contributions of the New York Zoological Society, 6(3), 229–290.
  • Strümpel, H. (1974a) Beitrag zur Kenntnis der neotropischen Membraciden Gattung Tylopelta Fowler, 1894. Entomologische Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Staatsinstitut u. Zoologischen Museum Hamburg, 4(88), 531–540.
  • Stål, C. (1869a) Hemiptera Fabriciana. Fabricianska Hemipterarter, efter de i Köpenhamn och Kiel förvarade typexemplaren granskade och beskrifne. 2. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar, 8(1), 1–130.
  • Van Duzee, E.P. (1908a) Studies in North American Membracidae. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, 9, 29–127.

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