genus
Cixius Latreille, 1804
Descendants and synonyms
Nomenclature (1)
- Cixius Latreille, 1804a: 310.
type species by subsequent designation Cicada nervosa Linnaeus, 1758 in Curtis, 1837f
Type
Cicada nervosa Linnaeus, 1758 type species by subsequent designation of Cixius Latreille, 1804
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:
after Persian Empire Cissia (Greek: Κισσία), a very fertile district of Susiana, on the Choaspes; according to Herodotus, the inhabitants, Cissii, were "wild", free people, resembling the Persians in their manners
Nomenclature references (2)
- Curtis, J. (1837f) Cixius. In British entomology; being illustrations and descriptions of the genera of insects found in Great Britain and Ireland: containing coloured figures from nature of the most rare and beautiful species, and in many instances of the plants upon which they are found. Published by the Author, London. Vol. 14, pp. pl. 673.
- Latreille, P.A. (1804a) Division seconde. Famille quarante-huitième. Cicadaires; Cicadariae. In Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes: ouvrage faisant suite aux oeuvres de Leclerc de Buffon, et partie du cours complet d'histoire naturelle rédigé par C. S. Sonnini, membre de plusieurs Sociétés savantes. F. Dufart. Paris. Vol. 12, pp. 293–337 + pls. xcvi-xcvii. [5-424 pp.]
Stats
| Names | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Total | Valid | Invalid |
| genus | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| subgenus | 27 | 15 | 12 |
| species | 500 | 268 | 232 |
| subspecies | 13 | 6 | 7 |