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World Auchenorrhyncha Database (WAD)
Species

Chlorocysta vitripennis (Westwood, 1851)

Small Bottle Cicada

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (10)

  • Cystosoma (Chlorocysta) vitripennis Westwood, 1851a: 208.

    Lectotype; female; 626d139d-47f5-4aab-ba36-55e01b14c447; deposited at: Australian National Insect Collection (ANIC); Australia, Queensland: Brisbane

  • Cystosoma vitripennis Westwood, 1851 in Walker, 1852a: 1133.
  • Kanakia congrua (Walker, 1862) in Moulds, 1990a: 188.
  • Chlorocysta (Chlorocysta) vitripennis (Westwood, 1851) in Moulds & Cowan, 2002a: 19.

Nomenclature references (7)

  • Westwood, J.O. (1851a) Descriptions of some new species of exotic homopterous insects. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (Ser. 2), 7, 207–210.
  • Walker, F. (1852a) Supplement. In List of the specimens of homopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. London, Edward Newman. Vol. 4, pp. 1119–1188.
  • Walker, F. (1862a) Characters of undescribed species of Homoptera in the collection of F.P. Pascoe, F.L.S. The Journal of Entomology Descriptive and Geographical, 1, 303–319.
  • Stål, C. (1863c) Hemipterorum exoticorum generum et specierum nonnullarum novarum descriptiones. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, (Series 3), 1, 571–603. Available at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/100203#page/612/mode/2up
  • Distant, W.L. (1905f) Rhynchotal notes. -- XXXIV. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Ser. 7), 16, 203–216.
  • Moulds, M.S. (1990a) Australian cicadas. New South Wales University Press, Kensington, NSW, 217 pp. + 24 pls.
  • Moulds, M.S. & Cowan, S.A. (2002a) Cicadoidea. In G. Cassis & C.F. Gross (Eds.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra. pp. 1–55. [Published electronically]
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Latin: having glassy wing

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Species1078