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Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (1)

  • Cedusa dampfi Caldwell, 1944e: 453.

    Holotype; male; M.F. 2655; deposited at: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (USNM); Mexico, Veracruz: Tierra Blanca, station of the Isthmian railway, dense coastal bush, 29.VII.1932, on light, Dampf

Nomenclature references (1)

  • Caldwell, J.S. (1944e) The genus Cedusa in Mexico and Central America. (Hom. Fulg.). Anales de la Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biologicas (Mexico), 3, 445–462.
Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

in honor of Alfonso Dampf Tenson (1884-1948), a Baltic German entomologist, specialist in Mexican Diptera and Siphonaptera

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Species1001