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species

Muiria glycon Fennah, 1967

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (1)

  • Muiria glycon Fennah, 1967b: 50.

    Holotype; male; Bishop 7079; deposited at: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (BPBM); Samoa: Tutuila, Amouli, 240 m, 2.VIII.1940, on Heliconia, E.C. Zimmerman

Nomenclature references (1)

  • Fennah, R.G. (1967b) New species and records of Fulgoroidea (Homoptera) from Samoa and Tonga. Pacific Insects, 9(1), 29–72.
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

after Glykon, in Gnostic-Mithraic demonology, an incarnation of Asclepius, he is described as having a human head with the body of a snake

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