genus
Lawana Distant, 1906
Descendants and synonyms
Nomenclature (6)
- Phyma Melichar, 1902: 199.
type species by subsequent designation Flata candida Fabricius, 1798 in Melichar, 1902a
- Phyma Melichar, 1902 (homonym of Phyma Gistel, 1848)
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- Phyma Melichar, 1902 (replaced by Lawana Distant, 1906) in Distant, 1906i: 420.
- Daksha Distant, 1906 (subjective synonym of Lawana Distant, 1906) in Medler, 1996b: 39.
Type
Flata candida Fabricius, 1798 type species by original designation of Lawana Distant, 1906
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:
after "Maharadia Lawana", an epic poem of the Maranao people of the Philippines, it has been regarded as an indigenized version of the Ramayana
Nomenclature references (4)
- Distant, W.L. (1906i) Rhynchota. Heteroptera-Homoptera. Bingham, C. T. (ed.). The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Taylor and Francis, London. Vol. 3: i–xiv, 1–503.
- Medler, J.T. (1996b) Flatidae of Borneo, with descriptions of new genera and species (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Oriental Insects, 30, 11–96.
- Melichar, L. (1902) Monographie der Acanaloniiden und Flatiden (Homoptera). Annalen des kaiserlich-königlichen naturhistorischen Hofmuseums, Wien, 16, 178–258. [1901]
- Melichar, L. (1902a) Monographie der Acanoloniiden und Flatiden (Homoptera) (Fortsetzung.). Annalen des k. k. Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums, 17(1), 1–253 + pls. 1–9.
Stats
| Names | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Total | Valid | Invalid |
| genus | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| species | 60 | 22 | 38 |
| subspecies | 10 | 2 | 8 |