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Habitus, dorsal view on Pissonotus spooneri Morgan & Beamer, 1949: (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view on Pissonotus spooneri Morgan & Beamer, 1949: (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view on Pissonotus spooneri Morgan & Beamer, 1949: (Observation).
Habitus, lateral view on Pissonotus spooneri Morgan & Beamer, 1949: (Observation).
Habitus, lateral view on Pissonotus spooneri Morgan & Beamer, 1949: (Observation).
Head on Pissonotus spooneri Morgan & Beamer, 1949: (Observation).
Head on Pissonotus spooneri Morgan & Beamer, 1949: (Observation).
Pygofer, lateral view on Pissonotus spooneri Morgan & Beamer, 1949: (Observation).
Pygofer, ventral view on Pissonotus spooneri Morgan & Beamer, 1949: (Observation).
Other on Pissonotus spooneri Morgan & Beamer, 1949: (Observation).
Other on Pissonotus spooneri Morgan & Beamer, 1949: (Observation).

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (8)

  • Pissonotus piceus Spooner, 1912a: 238.

    Holotype; female; 3c3f1bd2-402a-442c-a016-1a527c4f7eb4; deposited at: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (USNM); U.S.A.: Middletown, 21.VII.1910, New York, C.S. Spooner Collector

  • Dicranotropis picea (Spooner, 1912) in Crawford, 1914: 601.
  • Pissonotus piceus Spooner, 1912 (replaced by Pissonotus (Phyllodictus) spooneri Morgan & Beamer, 1949) in Morgan & Beamer, 1949a: 104.
  • Pissonotus spooneri Morgan & Beamer, 1949 in Bartlett & Deitz, 2000a: 98.

Nomenclature references (8)

  • Davis, G.C. (1894h) Celery insects. Bulletin of the Michigan State Agricultural College Experiment Station, 102, 23–52.
  • Ball, E.D. (1903b) Some new North American Homoptera. The Canadian Entomologist, 35, 227–232.
  • Spooner, C.S. (1912a) Some new species of Delphacidae. The Canadian Entomologist, 44, 233–242.
  • 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.
  • Metcalf, Z.P. (1923a) A key to the Fulgoridae of Eastern North America with descriptions of new species. Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society, 38(3-4), 139–230.
  • Metcalf, Z.P. (1943a) General catalogue of the Hemiptera. Fascicle IV. Fulgoroidea. Part 3. Araeopidae (Delphacidae). Northhampton, MA: Smith College, 552 pp.
  • Morgan, L.W. & Beamer, R.H. (1949a) A revision of three genera of Delphacine fulgorids from America north of Mexico (Homoptera-Fulgoridae-Delphacinae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 22(3), 97–120.
  • Bartlett, C.R. & Deitz, L.L. (2000a) Revision of the New World delphacid planthopper genus Pissonotus (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea). Thomas Say Publications in Entomology. Monographs. Entomological Society of America, Lanham, Maryland, 234 pp.
Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

in honor of Charles Stockman Spooner (1883-1963), an American entomologist, the collector of the type specimen

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Species1045