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Habitus, dorsal view: !! display not done !! on Toya (Metadelphax) wetmorei (Muir & Giffard, 1924): (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view: !! display not done !! on Toya (Metadelphax) wetmorei (Muir & Giffard, 1924): (Observation).
Habitus, lateral view: !! display not done !! on Toya (Metadelphax) wetmorei (Muir & Giffard, 1924): (Observation).
Pygofer, lateral view: !! display not done !! on Toya (Metadelphax) wetmorei (Muir & Giffard, 1924): (Observation).
Pygofer, lateral view: !! display not done !! on Toya (Metadelphax) wetmorei (Muir & Giffard, 1924): (Observation).
Head: !! display not done !! on Toya (Metadelphax) wetmorei (Muir & Giffard, 1924): (Observation).
Pygofer, ventral view: !! display not done !! on Toya (Metadelphax) wetmorei (Muir & Giffard, 1924): (Observation).

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (6)

  • Megamelus terminalis (Crawford, 1914) non Van Duzee, 1907 in Crawford, 1914: 607.
  • Megamelus terminalis (Crawford, 1914) non Van Duzee, 1907 (misapplication, linked to Liburnia terminalis Van Duzee, 1907)
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  • Megamelus wetmorei (Muir & Giffard, 1924) in Gonzon & Bartlett, 2008a: 246.
  • Metadelphax wetmorei (Muir & Giffard, 1924) in Bartlett, O'Brien & Wilson, 2014a: 126.

Nomenclature references (5)

  • Bartlett, C.R., O'Brien, L.B. & Wilson, S.W. (2014a) A review of the planthoppers (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea) of the United States. Memoirs of the American Entomological Society, 50, 1–287.
  • Crawford, D.L. (1914) A contribution toward a monograph of the homopterous insects of the family Delphacidae of North and South America. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 46(2041), 557–640.
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  • Gonzon, A.T. & Bartlett, C.R. (2008a) Systematics of Hadropygos n.g., Metadelphax Wagner and New World Toya Distant (Hemiptera: Delphacidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 133(3-4), 205–278. [2007]
  • Muir, F.A.G. & Giffard, W.M. (1924a) Studies in North American Delphacidae (Homoptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experiment Station (Entomological Series), 15, 1–53.
  • Van Duzee, E.P. (1907) Notes on Jamaican Hemiptera: A report on a collection of Hemiptera made on the Island of Jamaica in the spring of 1906. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, 8(5), 3–79.
Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

in honor of Frank Alexander Wetmore (1886-1978), an American ornithologist and avian paleontologist, the sixth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, an elected member of both the American Philosophical Society and the United States National Academy of Sciences, the collector of the type specimen

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
Taxon Valid names
Rank Extant Fossil Invalid Total
species1034