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Species

Paranistria villosa (Fabricius, 1781)

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (13)

  • Tettigonia villosa Fabricius, 1781a: 320.

    Syntype; c7e7ef32-9cd8-4c0c-868d-9e5e34290550; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); South Africa, Western Cape: Cape of Good Hope: ad promontorium Bon. Spei

  • Cicada villosa (Fabricius, 1781) in Gmelin, 1789a: 2096.
  • Neomuda villosa (Fabricius, 1781) in Stephen, 2021: 91.
  • Paranistria villosa (Fabricius, 1781) in Sanborn, 2024: 13.

Nomenclature references (9)

  • Fabricius, J.C. (1781a) Ryngota. In Species insectorum: exhibentes eorum differentias specificas, synonyma auctorum, loca natalia, metamorphosin, adjectis observationibus, descriptionibus. Impensis C. E. Bohnii. Hamburgi et Kilonii. Vol. 2, pp. 313–331. [517 pp.]
  • Gmelin, J.F. (1789a) Insecta Hemiptera. In Caroli a Linné. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. G.E. Beer, Lipsiae. Vol. 1, Issue 4, pp. 2041–2224. [pp. 1517-2224]
  • Amyot, C.J.-B. & Audinet-Serville, J.G. (1843a) Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Hémiptères. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret. Paris, lxxvi + 676 pp. + 12 pls.
  • Stål, C. (1862) Genera nonnulla nova Cicadinorum. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, (4 série), 1(4), 613–622. [1861]
  • Stål, C. (1866a) Hemiptera Homoptera Latr. In Hemiptera Africana. Vol. 4, pp. 1–276 + pl. 1.
  • Metcalf, Z.P. (1952a) New names in the Homoptera. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 42, 226–231.
  • Zimsen, E. (1964) Hemiptera. In The type materials of I.C. Fabricius. Munksgaard, Copenhagen. pp. 281–354. [656 pp.]
  • Stephen, R.D. (2021) Cicadas of southern Africa. An illustrated guide to known species. Suricata, 7, i-viii + 1–207.
  • Sanborn, A.F. (2024) Redescription of Carinetini Distant, 1905 (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadettinae) including a key to the genera, three new species, two new combinations, a new record and comments on the taxonomic position of the genus Paranistria Metcalf, 1952. Journal of Insect Biodiversity, 59(1), 11–32. https://doi.org/10.12976/jib/2024.59.1.2
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Latin: shaggy

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Species1089