World Auchenorrhyncha Database (WAD)

family

Cixiidae Spinola, 1839

Live specimen: !! display not done !! on Cixiidae Spinola, 1839: Cixius nervosus (Linnaeus, 1758), male. Boxford, Essex Co, Massachusetts, USA; June 7, 2021. (Observation).

Live specimen: !! display not done !! on Cixiidae Spinola, 1839: Cixius nervosus (Linnaeus, 1758), male. Boxford, Essex Co, Massachusetts, USA; June 7, 2021. (Observation).

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (1)

Cixioïdes Spinola, 1839a: 202.
type genus Cixius Latreille, 1804

Nomenclature references (1)

Spinola, M. (1839a) Essai sur les Fulgorelles, sous-tribu de la tribu des Cicadaires, ordre des Rhyngotes. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 8(1/2), 133–337, pls. 1–7.

Type

type genus of Cixiidae Spinola, 1839

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
Taxon	Valid names
Rank	Extant	Fossil	Invalid	Total
family	1	0	0	1
subfamily	1	0	0	1
tribe	18	1	13	32
subtribe	2	0	0	2
genus	232	38	85	355
subgenus	48	0	43	91
species	2539	51	1601	4191
subspecies	85	0	85	170