Species

Reptalus (Pererepa) fidus (Van Duzee, 1914)

Descendants and synonyms

Oliarus fidus Van Duzee, 1914a: 37.
Lectotype; male; Type No. 2231; deposited at: California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California (CASC); U.S.A., California: San Diego Co., on the rocky hillside south of the railway station at Foster, 24.V.1913, E.P. Van Duzee
Reptalus fidus (Van Duzee, 1914) in Emeljanov, 2001a: 122.

Van Duzee, E.P. (1914a) A preliminary list of the Hemiptera of San Diego County, California. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History, 2(1), 1–57.
Emeljanov, A.F. (2001a) The generic position of some Nearctic Pentastirini (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea: Cixiidae). Zoosystematica Rossica, 9(1), 122. [2000]

Emeljanov, A.F. (2020) Nomenclatorial changes in the family Cixiidae (Homoptera, Auchenorrhyncha, Fulgoroidea), with fixation of type species of the genus Reptalus Emeljanov, 1971 and description of a new subgenus. Zootaxa, 4780(1), 197–200. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4780.1.11
Hendrix, S.V. & Bartlett, C.R. (2025) Reclassification of the planthopper genus Melanoliarus Fennah, 1945 (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae), primarily north of Mexico, with notes on American Pentastirini. Zootaxa, 5619(1), 1–87. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5619.1.1

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Latin: faithful, loyal, confident

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
Taxon	Valid names
Rank	Extant	Fossil	Invalid	Total
Species	1	0	2	3