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genus

Copicerus Swartz, 1802

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (19)

  • Copicerus Swartz, 1802a: 177.

    type species by original monotypy Copicerus irroratus Swartz, 1802

  • Holotus Guérin-Méneville, 1856a: 180.

    type species by original monotypy Holotus thoracicus Guérin-Méneville, 1856

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  • Helotus [sic] Guérin-Méneville, 1856 in Muir, 1926b: 37.
  • Helotus [sic] Guérin-Méneville, 1856 (misspelling of Holotus Guérin-Méneville, 1856) in Muir, 1926b: 37.

Type

Copicerus irroratus Swartz, 1802 type species by original monotypy of Copicerus Swartz, 1802

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Greek: κοπίς (knife) + κέρας (horn, antenna)

Nomenclature references (12)

  • Barber, H.S. (1914a) Insects of Florida. Hemiptera-Homoptera. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 33, 495–535.
  • Dallas, W.S. (1867a) Insecta. The Zoological Record, 3, 268–576.
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  • Guérin-Méneville, F.E. (1856a) "Segunda, Seccion. Homopteros." In Crustaceos, Aragnides, e Insectos. In Ramon de la Sagra D. 1856 - Historia fisica politica y natural de la Isla de Cuba. Segunda Parte Historia Natural. Vol. 7, pp. 178–182 + pl 13. [868 pp.]
  • Muir, F.A.G. (1926b) Contributions to our knowledge of South American Fulgoroidea (Homoptera), Part I. The family Delphacidae. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experiment Station (Entomological Series), 18, 1–51.
  • Scudder, S.H. (1882a) Nomenclator zoologicus. An alphabetical list of all generic names that have been employed by naturalists for recent and fossil animals from the earliest times to the close of the year 1879. I. Supplemental list of generic names employed in zoology and palentology to the close of the year 1879, chiefly supplemental to those catalogued by Agassiz and Marschall, or indexed in the Zoological Record. Bulletin. United States National Museum. Smithsonian Institution, 19, i-xix + 1–376.
  • Stål, C. (1862b) Synonymiska och systematiska anteckningar öfver Hemiptera. Öfversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, 19, 479–504.
  • Stål, C. (1866a) Hemiptera Homoptera Latr. In Hemiptera Africana. Vol. 4, pp. 1–276 + pl. 1.
  • Swartz, O. (1802a) Copicerus, et nytt slägte bland insecterne från Westindien. Nya Handligar. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens. Uppsala and Stockholm, 23. 177-183.
  • Valdés Ragués, P. (1910a) Classification Gundlach de Hemipteros Cubanos, Conforme a los Ejemplares que Existen en el Museo del Instituto de 2a. Enseéñanza de la Habana. Anales de la Academia de Ciencias Medicas, Fisicas y Naturales de la Habana, 46, 425–446.
  • Valdés Ragués, P. (1914a) Hemipteros. In Zoologia Museo Cubano "Gundlach" Catalogo General. pp. 102–105. [5-152 pp.]
  • Van Duzee, E.P. (1897a) A preliminary review of the North American Delphacidae. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, 5(5), 225–261.
  • Walker, F. (1858b) Supplement. List of the specimens of homopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. London: Order of Trustees, Suppl. 307 pp.

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RankExtantFossilInvalid Total
genus10910
species40913