genus

Patara Westwood, 1840

Derbe (Patara) Westwood, 1840d: 85.
type species by subsequent designation Derbe (Patara) guttata Westwood, 1840 in Kirkaldy, 1903c: 216
Patara Westwood, 1840 in Westwood, 1841a: 13.
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Petata [sic] Westwood, 1840 in Procter, 1946a: 95.
Petata [sic] Westwood, 1840 (misspelling of Derbe (Patara) Westwood, 1840) in Procter, 1946a: 95.

Derbe (Patara) guttata Westwood, 1840 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

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.
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Westwood, J.O. (1840d) Observations on the genus Derbe of Fabricius. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, 1, 82–85.
Westwood, J.O. (1841a) Observations on the genus Derbe of Fabricius. The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. London, 19: 1-18, Plates 1-2., 19, 1–18.