genus

Cryptoflata Melichar, 1902

Descendants and synonyms

Cryptoflata Melichar, 1902a: 19.
type species by original designation Fulgora unipunctata Olivier, 1792
Crytoflata [sic] Melichar, 1902 in Lallemand, 1952b: 169.

Crytoflata [sic] Melichar, 1902 (misspelling of Cryptoflata Melichar, 1902) in Lallemand, 1952b: 169.
Cryptoflata Melichar, 1902 (classified as Flatina Spinola, 1839) in Ai, Bourgoin, Bu & Zhang, 2026: 6.

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
Lallemand, V. (1952b) Mission A. Villiers au Togo et au Dahomey (1950). IX. Hémiptères, Homoptères. Bulletin de l'Institut Francaise d'Afrique Noire. Série A: Sciences Naturelles, 14(1), 164–169.

Melichar, L. (1902a) Monographie der Acanoloniiden und Flatiden (Homoptera) (Fortsetzung). Annalen des kaiserlich-königlichen naturhistorischen Hofmuseums, Wien, 17(1), 1–253 + pls. 1–9.

type species by original designation of

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Greek: κρυπτός (hidden, secret) + Flata

No descendants observations found