genus

Criomorphus Curtis, 1831

Criomorphus Curtis, 1831a: 194.
type species by original monotypy Delphax hemiptera Germar, 1818
Cryomorphus [sic] Curtis, 1831 in Logvinenko, 1964b: 75.

Cryomorphus [sic] Curtis, 1831 (misspelling of Criomorphus Curtis, 1831) in Logvinenko, 1964b: 75.

Delphax hemiptera Germar, 1818 type species by original monotypy of Criomorphus Curtis, 1831

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Greek: κρύος (ice, frost, cold) + μορφή (form, shape)

Curtis, J. (1831a) Homoptera. In A guide to an arrangement of British insects: being a catalogue of all the named species hitherto discovered in Great Britain and Ireland. F. Westley and A. H. Davis, M. Sherwood and Co., Simpkin and Marshall, London. Issues 6-7, pp. 189–194. [1929; 256 columns]
Logvinenko, V.N. (1964b) Ecological and faunistic review of leafhoppers of the Ukraine-Polissya. [Еколого-фаунiстичний огляд цикадин Украiнського Полiсся]. Pratsi Instituta Zoologii Akademii Nauk Ukrainskoi RSR, 20, 73–90. [in Ukrainian]