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Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (11)

  • Pomponia gigantea Distant, 1897e: 380.
  • Sawda pratti Distant, 1905h: 556.

    Holotype; adult; fc72142d-2eeb-4c83-9533-45bbe9bce91f; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); British New Guinea: Ekeikei, Pratt

  • Cosmopsaltria sharpi (Distant, 1905) in Sanborn & Villet, 2014a: 260.
  • Cosmopsaltria pratti (Distant, 1905) in Sanborn & Villet, 2014a: 260.

Nomenclature references (6)

  • Distant, W.L. (1897e) Viaggio di Lamberto Loria nella Papuasia orientale, xvii. Additions to our knowledge of the Cicadidae of New Guinea. Annali del Museo civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. (Ser. 2), 17, 378–383.
  • Distant, W.L. (1905h) Rhynchotal notes. - XXXVI. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Ser. 7), 16, 553–567.
  • Duffels, J.P. (1983a) Distribution patterns of oriental Cicadoidea (Homoptera) east of Wallace’s line and plate tectonics. in I.W.B. Thornton, ed. Symposium on Distribution and Evolution of Pacific Insects. GeoJournal., 7, 491–498.
  • Duffels, J.P. (1983b) Taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of the genus Cosmopsaltria, with remarks on the historic biogeography of the subtribe Cosmopsaltriaria (Homoptera: Cicadidae). Pacific Insects Monograph, 39, 1–127.
  • Sanborn, A.F. & Villet, M.H. (2014a) Catalogue of the Cicadoidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). USA: Elsevier Science Publishing, 1001 pp.
  • Sanborn, A.F. (1999a) Cicada (Homoptera: Cicadidoidea) type material in the collections of the American Museum of Natural History, California Academy of Sciences, Snow Entomological Museum, Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences, and the United States National Museum. Florida Entomologist, 82(1), 34–60.
Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Latin: gigantic

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Subspecies1078