genus
Maoricicada Dugdale, 1972
Descendants and synonyms
Nomenclature (5)
- Maoricicada Dugdale, 1972a: 876.
type species by original designation Melampsalta campbelli Myers, 1923
- Maoripsalta [sic] Dugdale, 1972 in Fleming, 1975a: 1570.
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- Maoricicad [sic] Dugdale, 1972 in Chou, Lei, Li, Lu & Yao, 1997a: 25.
- Maoricicad [sic] Dugdale, 1972 (misspelling of Maoricicada Dugdale, 1972) in Chou, Lei, Li, Lu & Yao, 1997a: 25.
Type
Melampsalta campbelli Myers, 1923 type species by original designation of Maoricicada Dugdale, 1972
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:
after Maori, indigenous people of New Zealand + Cicada
Nomenclature references (3)
- Chou, I., Lei, Z.-R., Li, L., Lu, X.-L. & Yao, W. (1997a) The Cicadidae of China (Homoptera: Cicadoidea). Tianze Eldoneio, Hong Kong, 380 pp., 16 plts. [in Chinese]
- Dugdale, J.S. (1972a) Genera of New Zealand Cicadidae (Homoptera). New Zealand Journal of Science, 14, 856–882. [1971]
- Fleming, C.A. (1975a) Cicadas (1). New Zealand's Nature Heritage, 4, 1568–1572.
Stats
| Names | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Total | Valid | Invalid |
| genus | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| species | 38 | 14 | 24 |
| subspecies | 16 | 8 | 8 |