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Genus

Siphanta Stål, 1862

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (11)

  • Siphanta Stål, 1862: 69.

    type species by subsequent designation Poeciloptera [sic] acuta Walker, 1851 in Melichar, 1902a: 36

  • Phalainesthes Kirkaldy, 1899b: 359.

    type species by original designation Phalainesthes schauinslandi Kirkaldy, 1899

  • Siphantoides Distant, 1910 (subjective synonym of Siphanta Stål, 1862) in Fletcher, 1985a: 3.
  • Siphanta Stål, 1862 (classified as Siphantina Melichar, 1923) in Ai, Bourgoin, Bu & Zhang, 2026: 6.

Nomenclature references (9)

  • Ai, D.-Q., Bourgoin, T., Bu, W. & Zhang, Y.-L. (2026) Toward a new phylogeny-based classification of Flatidae (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha): a diversification shaped by angiosperm expansion. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 216, 1–13. [2025; no zoobank registration] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2025.108508
  • Distant, W.L. (1910a) Rhynchotal notes. -- L. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (Ser. 8), 5, 297–322.
  • Distant, W.L. (1910d) Rhynchota Malayana. Part III. Records of the Indian Museum, 5, 313–338.
  • Fletcher, M.J. (1985a) Revision of the genus Siphanta Stål (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea: Flatidae). Australian Journal of Zoology, Supplementary Series, 110, 1–94.
  • Kirkaldy, G.W. (1899b) Eine neu Hawaii'sche Fulgoriden-Gattung und Art. Entomologisches Nachrichten. Dresden, 25, 359.
  • Kirkaldy, G.W. (1902a) Hemiptera. In D. Sharp (Ed.). Fauna Hawaiiensis or the zoology of the Sandwich (Hawaiian) Isles: being results of the explorations instituted by the joint committee appointed by the Royal Society of London for Promoting Natural Knowledge and the British Association for the Advancement of Science, and carried on with the assistance of those bodies and of the Trustees of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum at Honolulu. Vol. 3, Issue 2, pp. 93–174 + pls. 4–5.
  • Lallemand, V. & Synave, H. (1953a) Homoptères de Sumba et Florès. In: Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Sumba-Expedition des Museum für Völkerkunde und des Naturhistorischen Museums in Basel, 1949. Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel, 64(1), 229–254. [in French]
  • Melichar, L. (1902a) Monographie der Acanolaniiden und Flatiden (Homoptera) (Fortsetzung). Annalen des kaiserlich-königlichen naturhistorischen Hofmuseums, Wien, 17(1), 1–253 + pls. 1–9.
  • Stål, C. (1862) Bidrag till Rio Janeiro-traktens Hemipter-Fauna II. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar, 3(6), 1–75. [in Latin; 1860]

Type

type species by subsequent designation of Siphanta Stål, 1862

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

after Nisí Sífnos or Siphanto, Greece

Image matrix

No descendants observations found

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1045
Species3903574