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World Auchenorrhyncha Database (WAD)
Species

Ewartia oldfieldi (Distant, 1883)

Wattle Cicada

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (3)

  • Melampsalta oldfieldi Distant, 1883b: 191.

    Holotype; female; 80914ae3-a5d4-48a1-a50e-d5b7c7b0d33b; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Australia, former New Holland

  • Cicadetta oldfieldi (Distant, 1883) in Kirkaldy, 1907g: 308.
  • Ewartia oldfieldi (Distant, 1883) in Moulds, 2012a: 103.

Nomenclature references (4)

  • Distant, W.L. (1883b) Contributions to a proposed monograph of the homopterous family Cicadidae. Part I. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1883, 187–194.
  • Kirkaldy, G.W. (1907g) Some annotations to M. Distant's recent Catalogue of the Cicadidae. (Hem.). Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique, 51, 303–309.
  • Moulds, M.S. (2012a) A review of the genera of Australian cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea). Zootaxa, 3287, 1–262.
  • Popple, L.W. (2017b) A revision of the Ewartia oldfieldi (Distant) species complex (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadettinae) with five new species from eastern and northern Australia. Zootaxa, 4263(3), 401–449. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4263.3.1
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

in honor of ?Augustus Frederick Oldfield (1821-1887), an English botanist and zoologist who made large collections of plant specimens in Australia

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
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RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Species1023