Species

Flexocentrus felinus (Haviland, 1925)

Descendants and synonyms

Centruchoides felinus Haviland, 1925a: 257.
Lectotype; female; B.M. 1924-519; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Guyana: Kartabo, Brit. Guiana, July, 1922, e coll. M.D. Haviland
Flexocentrus felinus (Haviland, 1925) in Goding, 1926a: 106.

Flexocentrus brunneus Funkhouser, 1930a: 410.
Holotype; male; 71-293e; deposited at: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (USNM); Mackenzie, Demerara Region, British Guiana, June 24, 1927, Cornell U., Lot 760, W.D. Funkhouser Collection
Flexocentrus brunneus Funkhouser, 1930 (subjective synonym of Centruchoides felinus Haviland, 1925) in Cryan & Deitz, 2000: 84.

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.
Goding, F.W. (1926a) New genera and species of Membracidae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 52, 103–110.

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.
Cryan, J.R. & Deitz, L.L. (2000) Review of the New World treehopper tribe Stegaspidini (Hemiptera: Membracidae: Stegaspidinae): III: Flexocentrus Goding, Stylocentrus Stål, and Umbelligerus Deitz. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 102(1), 82–98.

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Latin: feline; perhaps comparing the pronotal horns to the ears of cats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
Taxon	Valid names
Rank	Extant	Fossil	Invalid	Total
Species	1	0	2	3