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genus

Borysthenes Stål, 1866

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (7)

  • Borysthenes Stål, 1866a: 165.

    type species by subsequent designation Cixius finitus Walker, 1857 in Stål, 1866c

  • Barma Distant, 1906i: 266.

    type species by original designation Barma diversa Distant, 1906

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  • Bolysthenes [sic] Stål, 1866 in Kato, 1933r: 468.
  • Bolysthenes [sic] Stål, 1866 (misspelling of Borysthenes Stål, 1866) in Kato, 1933r: 468.

Type

Cixius finitus Walker, 1857 type species by subsequent designation of Borysthenes Stål, 1866

Image matrix

No descendants observations found
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

after Borysthenes (Greek: Βορυσθένης), in Greek mythology, a river god

Nomenclature references (7)

  • Distant, W.L. (1906i) Rhynchota. Heteroptera-Homoptera. Bingham, C. T. (ed.). The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Taylor and Francis, London. Vol. 3: i–xiv, 1–503.
  • Distant, W.L. (1907a) Current criticism. Entomologist, 40, 2–3.
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  • Kato, M. (1933r) Notes on Japanese Homoptera, with descriptions of one new genus and some new species. The Entomological World, 1, 452–471. [in Japanese]
  • Melichar, L. (1914b) Homopteren von Java, gesammelt von Herrn Edw. Jacobson. Not. Leyden Mus., 36(9), 91–147 + pl. 3.
  • Muir, F.A.G. (1925a) On the genera of Cixiidae, Meenoplidae and Kinnaridae (Fulgorlidea, Homoptera). Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 1, 97–110.
  • Stål, C. (1866a) Hemiptera Homoptera Latr. In Hemiptera Africana. Vol. 4, pp. 1–276 + pl. 1.
  • Stål, C. (1866c) Analecta hemipterologica. Berliner entomologische Zeitschrift, 10, 381–394.

Stats

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
genus1034
species3001040