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Genus

Saigona Matsumura, 1910

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (8)

  • Saigona Matsumura, 1910: 110.

    type species by subsequent designation Dictyophara ishidae Matsumura, 1905 in Melichar, 1912a: 50

  • Neoputala Distant, 1914f: 412.

    type species by original designation Putala lewisi Distant, 1906

  • Piela Lallemand, 1942 (subjective synonym of Saigona Matsumura, 1910) in Liang & Song, 2006a: 28.
  • Piela Lallemand, 1942 (classified as Orthopagini Emeljanov, 1983) in Emeljanov, 2011a: 303.

Nomenclature references (8)

  • Matsumura, S. (1910) Monographie der Dictyophorinen Japans. Transactions of the Sapporo Natural History Society, 3, 99–113.
  • Melichar, L. (1912a) Monographie der Dictyophorinen (Homoptera). Abhandlungen der K. K. Zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien. Wien, 7(1), 1–221.
  • Distant, W.L. (1914f) Some additions to the genera and species in the homopterous family Fulgoridae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (Ser. 8), 13, 409–424.
  • Lallemand, V. (1942f) Notes sur quelques espèces recueillies par le R. Piel (Musee Huede, Shanghai) et le R. P. de Cooman (Hoa Bihn, Tonkin.). Notes d'Entomologie Chinoise. Musée Heude, 9(4), 69–77.
  • Emeljanov, A.F. (1983a) Dictyopharidae from the Cretaceous deposits on the Taymyr Peninsula (Insecta, Homoptera). [Носатка (Insecta, Homoptera) из мела Таймыра]. Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal, 17, 79–85. [in Russian; translated into English in Paleontological Journal, 17: 77–82]
  • Liang, A.-P. (2001c) Taxonomic notes on Oriental and Eastern Palaearctic Fulgoroidea (Hemiptera). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 73(4), 235–237. [2000]
  • Liang, A.-P. & Song, Z.-S. (2006a) Revision of the Oriental and eastern Palaearctic planthopper genus Saigona Matsumura, 1910 (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea: Dictyopharidae), with descriptions of five new species. Zootaxa, 1333, 25–54.
  • Emeljanov, A.F. (2011a) Improved tribal delimitation of the subfamily Dictyopharinae and description of new genera and new species (Homoptera, Fulgoroidea, Dictyopharidae). [Уточненное деление подсем. Dictyopharinae на трибы и описания новых родов и видов (Homoptera, Fulgoroidea, Dictyopharidae)]. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 90(2), 299–328. [in Russian; translated into English in Entomological Review, Washington, 91, 1122–1145]

Type

type species by subsequent designation of Saigona Matsumura, 1910

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

in honor of Takamori (Takanaga) Saigo (Japanese: 西郷 隆盛 (隆永), 1828–1877), one of the most influential samurai in Japanese history + -na (related to)

Image matrix

No descendants observations found

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1023
Species1602036