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Dichotropis amboinensis Muir, 1913

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (4)

  • Dichotropis amboinensis Muir, 1913c: 84.

    Syntypes; female, male; fcc83bcd-bf63-491a-86a4-487566ca5dc9; deposited at: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (BPBM); Indonesia, Maluku: Amboina, F.A.G. Muir. Syntype; male; 1171a63f-444a-4ef3-99a7-6499b1428349; deposited at: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (BPBM); Indonesia, Maluku: Tanimbar, Larat Island, F.A.G. Muir. Syntype; female; c0ea7c00-0f13-4ac5-aab0-9c3eb8369d00; deposited at: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (BPBM); Papua New Guinea: Laloki, F.A.G. Muir, 1910

  • Decora amboinensis (Muir, 1913) in Metcalf, 1945a: 80.
  • Decora vettius Fennah, 1970b: 65.

    Holotype; male; B.M. 1933-427; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Papua New Guinea, Oro Province: New Guinea: Kokoda, 1,200 ft., Aug. 1933, L.E. Cheesman

  • Decora vettius Fennah, 1970 (subjective synonym of Dichotropis amboinensis Muir, 1913) in Zelazny & Webb, 2011a: 32.

Nomenclature references (4)

  • Fennah, R.G. (1970b) Fulgoroidea (Homoptera) from Rennell & Belona Islands. In T. Wolff (Ed.). The natural history of Rennell Islands, British Solomon Islands (Scientific Research of the Noona Dan Expedition (Rennell Section 1962) & Danish Rennell Exp. 1965.). Danish Science Press, Copenhagen (Denmark). Vol. 6, pp. 43–85.
  • Metcalf, Z.P. (1945a) General catalogue of the Hemiptera. Fascicle IV. Fulgoroidea. Part 4. Derbidae. Part 5. Achilixiidae. Part 6. Meenoplidae. Part 7. Kinnaridae. Northhampton, MA: Smith College, 252 pp.
  • Muir, F.A.G. (1913c) On some new species of leaf-hoppers. Part II. Derbidae. Report of work of the Experiment Station of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association. Entomological series, 12, 28–92.
  • Zelazny, B. & Webb, M.D. (2011a) Revision of the planthopper tribe Rhotanini (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Derbidae). Zootaxa, 3071, 1–307.
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

from Amboina, a historical name of Ambon or Amboyn Island (Indonesia, Maluku Prov.)

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