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Live specimen on Patara Westwood, 1840: Patara vanduzei. (Observation).
Live specimen on Patara Westwood, 1840: Patara vanduzei. (Observation).

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (7)

  • Derbe (Patara) Westwood, 1840d: 85.

    type species by subsequent designation Derbe (Patara) guttata Westwood, 1840 in Kirkaldy, 1903c: 216

  • Patara Westwood, 1840 in Westwood, 1842: 13.
  • Petata [sic] Westwood, 1840 (misspelling of Derbe (Patara) Westwood, 1840) in Procter, 1946a: 95.
  • Derbe (Patara) Westwood, 1840 (classified as Cenchreinae Muir, 1917) in Fennah, 1952b: 128.

Nomenclature references (6)

  • Fennah, R.G. (1952b) On the generic classification of Derbidae (Fulgoroidea), with descriptions of new Neotropical species. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 103(4), 109–170.
  • Kirkaldy, G.W. (1903c) On the nomenclature of the genera of the Rhynchota; Heteroptera and auchenorrhynchous Homoptera. The Entomologist, 36, 213–216.
  • Procter, W. (1946a) The insect fauna with references to methods of capture, food plants, the flora and other biological features. In Biological survey of the Mount Desert Region (Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory. Salisbury Cove, Maine). Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology. Philadelphia. Vol. 7, 566 pp.
  • Stål, C. (1858d) Hemipterologiska bidrag. Öfversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, 15, 433–454.
  • Westwood, J.O. (1840d) Observations on the genus Derbe of Fabricius. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, 1, 82–85.
  • Westwood, J.O. (1842) Observations on the genus Derbe of Fabricius. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 19(1), 1–18.

Type

type species by subsequent designation of Patara Westwood, 1840

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

after Patara (Greek: Πάταρα), an ancient city in Cappadocia or Lesser Armenia

Image matrix

No descendants observations found

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1034
Species2801038