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World Auchenorrhyncha Database (WAD)
Species

Amastris exaltata (Walker, 1858)

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (4)

  • Thelia exaltata Walker, 1858b: 140.

    Holotype; female; 45b3445f-6750-41e9-9b0b-f5907019b2aa; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Brazil, Pará: Santarém, Bates

  • Gelastogonia exaltata (Walker, 1858) in Funkhouser, 1927f: 315.
  • Hille exaltata (Walker, 1858) in Goding, 1929e: 279.
  • Amastris exaltata (Walker, 1858) in Broomfield, 1976a: 376.

Nomenclature references (5)

  • 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.
  • 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. (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.
  • 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.
  • Broomfield, P.S. (1976a) A revision of the genus Amastris (Homoptera: Membracidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology, 33(4), 349–460.
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Latin: exalted, elevated

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