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Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (3)

  • Cixius pirene Fennah, 1958d: 33.

    Holotype; adult; 06e51c02-6c28-4aa1-a1c6-9b74c1962bcd; deposited at: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgium (RGMC); Democratic Republic of the Congo, former Congo Belge: Parc National Albert, May-ya-Moto, 950 m, 5-9 Nov., 1934, G.F. de Witte

  • Cixius (Sciocixius) pyrene [sic] Fennah, 1958 in Emeljanov, 1993b: 23.
  • Cixius (Sciocixius) pyrene [sic] Fennah, 1958 (misspelling of Cixius pirene Fennah, 1958) in Emeljanov, 1993b: 23.

Nomenclature references (3)

  • Emeljanov, A.F. (1993b) Planthoppers of the family Cixiidae from vicinity of Ambo, Ethiopia (Homoptera, Cicadina). Zoosystematica Rossica, 1(1), 20–36. [1992]
  • 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.
Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

after Pirene or Peirene (Greek: Πειρήνη), in Greek mythology, a nymph, the daughter of the river god Asopus or river god Achelous

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Species1012