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Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (2)

  • Messena paradoxa Gerstaecker, 1895a: 33.

    Holotype; female; II 27390; deposited at: Zoologisches Institut und Museum Greifswald (ZIMG); Indonesia, Java: collected by Hans Fruhstorfer, in the mountains of West Java

  • Purusha paradoxa (Gerstaecker, 1895) in Distant, 1906m: 204.

Nomenclature references (3)

  • Constant, J. (2020) Revision of the Eurybrachidae (XV). The Oriental genus Purusha Distant, 1906 with two new species and a key to the genera of Eurybrachini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Eurybrachidae). European Journal of Taxonomy, 602, 1–40. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2020.602
  • Distant, W.L. (1906m) Rhynchotal notes. -- XXXIX. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Ser. 7), 18, 191–208.
  • Gerstaecker, C.E.A. (1895a) Ueber einige bemerkenswerthe Fulgorinen der Greifswalder zoologischen Sammlung. Mittheilungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereines für Neu-Vorpommern und Rügen. Greifswald, 27, 1–50.
Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Latin: paradoxical, strange, uncharacteristic

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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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RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Species1012