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Species

Cixius (Sciocixius) chinai Synave, 1953

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (7)

  • Cixius chinai Synave, 1953a: 37.

    Holotype; male; 92931a45-196c-4abe-8649-299430dffa1b; deposited at: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgium (RGMC); Democratic Republic of the Congo, former Zaire: Parc National Upemba, Buye-Bala, 1750 m, 1-7.IV.1948, lot 1500a, G.F. De Witte Mission

  • Cixius chinai f. fuscus Synave, 1953a: 38.

    Holotype; female; 9835e546-ce0d-4cb7-ba6c-4d236c81585f; deposited at: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgium (RGMC); Democratic Republic of the Congo, former Zaire: Parc National Upemba, Buye-Bala, 1750 m, 1-7.IV.1948, lot 1500a, G.F. De Witte Mission

  • Cixius chinai f. fuscus Synave, 1953 (subjective synonym of Cixius chinai Synave, 1953) in Van Stalle, 1988c: 229.
  • Cixius (Sciocixius) chinai Synave, 1953 in Emeljanov, 1993b: 23.

Nomenclature references (5)

  • Fieber, F.X. (1876a) Les Cicadines d'Europe d'après les originaux et les publications les plus récentes. Deuxième partie: Descriptions des espèces. Traduit de l'allemand par Ferd. Reiber [sic]. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie pure et appliquée. (Sér. 3), 4, 11–268, pl. 3–13. [1875] https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.36523
  • Synave, H. (1953a) Cixiidae (Hemiptera Homoptera). Exploration du Parc National de l’Upemba, mission G.F. de Witte en collaboration avec W. Adam, A. Janssens, L. Van Meel et R. Verheyen (1946-1949), 23, 3–49. [in French]
  • Fennah, R.G. (1958d) Fulgoroidea from the Belgian Congo (Hemiptera: Homoptera). Annales du Musée Royal du Congo Belge, (Série 8, Sciences Zoologiques), 59, 1–206. [1957]
  • Van Stalle, J. (1988c) A revision of the Afrotropical species of the genus Cixius Latreille, 1804 (Homoptera, Cixiidae). Revue de Zoologie Africaine, 102(2), 223–252.
  • Emeljanov, A.F. (1993b) Planthoppers of the family Cixiidae from vicinity of Ambo, Ethiopia (Homoptera, Cicadina). Zoosystematica Rossica, 1(1), 20–36. [1992]
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

in honor of William Edward China (1895–1979), an entomologist who specialized in Auchenorrhyncha (British Museum (Natural History), London, U.K.)

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