Species
Dilacreon (Dilacreon) orpheus (Fennah, 1956)
Descendants and synonyms
Nomenclature (4)
- Dystheatias orpheus Fennah, 1956b: 78.
Holotype; male; US 62120; deposited at: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (USNM); Babelthuap, Palau Is., Dec. 20, 1947, Dybas
- Dilacreon (Dilacreon) orpheus (Fennah, 1956) in Fennah, 1980c: 242.
- Dystheatias orphus [sic] (Fennah, 1956) in Holzinger, Emeljanov & Kammerlander, 2002a: 127.
- Dystheatias orphus [sic] (Fennah, 1956) (misspelling of Dystheatias orpheus Fennah, 1956) in Holzinger, Emeljanov & Kammerlander, 2002a: 127.
Nomenclature references (3)
- Fennah, R.G. (1956b) Insects of Micronesia. Homoptera: Fulgoroidea. Insects of Micronesia, 6(3), 39–211.
- Fennah, R.G. (1980c) The genus Bajauana and two allied new genera in New Guinea (Fulgoroidea: Cixiidae). Pacific Insects, 22(3-4), 237–328.
- Holzinger, W.E., Emeljanov, A.F. & Kammerlander, I. (2002a) The family Cixiidae Spinola 1839 (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha) – a review. Denisia, 176, 113–138.
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:
after Orpheus (Greek: Ὀρφεύς), in Greek mythology, a musician, poet, and prophet, he has an ability to charm all living things and even stones with his music, he made an attempt to retrive his wife Euridice from the underworld
Stats
| Taxon | Valid names | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Extant | Fossil | Invalid | Total |
| Species | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |