species
Confuga persephone Fennah, 1975
Descendants and synonyms
Nomenclature (1)
- Confuga persephone Fennah, 1975b: 379.
Holotype; male; 4aa3acc7-7c45-4f60-9441-fb45230fd3c2; deposited at: New Zealand Arthropod Collection (NZAC); New Zealand, Nelson Province: Council Cave, Takaka, 4.iii.1974, L. McRae & J. McBurney
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:
after Persephone (Greek: Περσεφόνη), in Greek mythology, the daughter of Zeus and Demeter, the queen of the underworld through her abduction by and subsequent marriage to Hades
Nomenclature references (2)
- Fennah, R.G. (1975b) New cavernicolous cixiid from New Zealand (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 2(3), 377–380.
- Larivière, M.-C., Fletcher, M.J. & Larochelle, A. (2010a) Auchenorrhyncha (Insecta: Hemiptera): catalogue. Fauna of New Zealand, 63, 1–232.
Stats
| Taxon | Valid names | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Extant | Fossil | Invalid | Total |
| species | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |