genus
Geisha Kirkaldy, 1900
Descendants and synonyms
Nomenclature (4)
- Geisha Kirkaldy, 1900e: 296.
type species by original designation Poeciloptera [sic] distinctissima Walker, 1858
- Ceisha [sic] Kirkaldy, 1900 in Liang, 1995b: 105.
- Ceisha [sic] Kirkaldy, 1900 (misspelling of Geisha Kirkaldy, 1900) in Liang, 1995b: 105.
- Geisha Kirkaldy, 1900 (classified as Phyllyphantina Melichar, 1923) in Ai, Bourgoin, Bu & Zhang, 2026: 6.
Type
Poeciloptera [sic] distinctissima Walker, 1858 type species by original designation of Geisha Kirkaldy, 1900
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:
Japanese: 芸者 (geisha, traditional Japanese female entertainer)
Nomenclature references (3)
- 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] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2025.108508
- Kirkaldy, G.W. (1900e) Rhynchota miscellanea. Entomologist, 33, 296–297.
- Liang, A.-P. (1995b) Homoptera: Fulgoroidea. In H. Wu (Ed.). Insects of Baishanzu Mountain, eastern China. Series of the Bioresources Expedition to the Baishanzu Mountain Nature Reserve. China Forestry Publishing House, Beijing. pp. 104–105. [in Chinese; 586 pp.]
Stats
| Valid names | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Extant | Fossil | Invalid | Total | |
| genus | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| species | 4 | 0 | 5 | 9 | |