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Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (6)

  • Nesocharis kalypso Kirkaldy, 1907d: 111.

    Holotype; female; 4372c2e6-23b8-48f8-bcb5-54f4576508ec; deposited at: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (BPBM); Fiji: Viti Levu, Rewa, March, Muir

  • Nesochlamys vitiensis Kirkaldy, 1907d: 115.

    Syntypes; adult; 3c512c57-3fd1-4779-b0ce-6430179c20c0; deposited at: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (BPBM); Fiji: Viti Levu, Rewa, March, April, November, Muir. Syntypes; adult; fe7d4922-804d-41fb-ae0d-9b124bdf119a; deposited at: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (BPBM); Fiji: Viti Levu, Navua, February, Muir

  • Nesochlamys kalypso kalypso (Kirkaldy, 1907) in Fennah, 1950b: 31.
  • Nesochlamys vitiensis Kirkaldy, 1907 (subjective synonym of Nesocharis kalypso Kirkaldy, 1907) in Wilson, 2009a: 41.

Nomenclature references (5)

  • Kirkaldy, G.W. (1907d) Leaf-Hoppers - Supplement (Hemiptera). Report of work of the Experiment Station of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association. Entomological series, 3, 1–186, i-iii, pls. 1–20.
  • Muir, F.A.G. (1925a) On the genera of Cixiidae, Meenoplidae and Kinnaridae (Fulgorlidea, Homoptera). Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 1, 97–110.
  • Metcalf, Z.P. (1936a) General Catalogue of the Hemiptera. Fascicle IV. Fulgoroidea. Part 2. Cixiidae. Northhampton, MA: Smith College, 269 pp.
  • Fennah, R.G. (1950b) Fulgoroidea of Fiji. Bulletin Bernice P. Bishop Museum, 202, 3–122.
  • Wilson, M.R. (2009a) A checklist of Fiji Auchenorrhyncha (Hemiptera). Fiji Arthropods XII. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers., 102, 33–48.
Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

after Calypso, or Kalypso (Greek: Καλυψώ, "she who conceals"), in Greek mythology, a nymph who lived on the island of Ogygia, where, according to Homer's Odyssey, she detained Odysseus for seven years

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Subspecies1045