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genus

Atracis Stål, 1866

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (12)

  • Atracis Stål, 1866a: 250.

    type species by subsequent designation Flata pyralis Guérin-Méneville, 1831 in Distant, 1906i: 450

  • Atracis (Uxantis) Stål, 1870c: 775.

    type species by subsequent designation Atracis (Uxantis) consputa Stål, 1870 in Banks, 1910a: 47

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  • Grapaldus Distant, 1914 (subjective synonym of Atracis Stål, 1866) in Medler, 1990a: 167.
  • Atracis Stål, 1866 (classified as Flatoidinae Melichar, 1902) in Ai, Bourgoin, Bu & Zhang, 2026: 6.

Type

Flata pyralis Guérin-Méneville, 1831 type species by subsequent designation of Atracis Stål, 1866

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

after Atrax, Atracis (Greek: Ἄτραξ), in Greek mythology, the son of the river god Peneus and Bura, he believed to have been the founder of Atrax or Atracia, a city in Thessaly

Nomenclature references (13)

  • 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
  • Banks, C.S. (1910a) Rhynchota Palawanica, part ii (Homoptera). Philippine Journal of Science, 5, 33–55.
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  • 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.
  • Distant, W.L. (1910d) Rhynchota Malayana. Part III. Records of the Indian Museum, 5, 313–338.
  • Distant, W.L. (1914d) Report on the Rhynchota collected by the Wollaston Expedition in Dutch New Guinea. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, 20, 335–362.
  • Medler, J.T. (1988a) Types of Flatidae (Homoptera) XII. Taxonomic notes on Guérin-Méneville types in the Naples Museum, with illustrations of male genitalia of plesiotypes for the respective species.. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Entomologia Agraria 'Filippo Silvestri' Portici, 43, 11–20.
  • Medler, J.T. (1989a) New Guinea Flatidae (Homoptera): species collected on economic and other plants, with descriptions of new species. Bishop Museum Bulletin in Entomology, 2, i-viii + 1–79.
  • Medler, J.T. (1990a) Types of Flatidae (Homoptera). XIV. Walker and Distant types in the British Museum. Oriental Insects, 24, 127–195.
  • Melichar, L. (1902a) Monographie der Acanoloniiden und Flatiden (Homoptera) (Fortsetzung). Annalen des kaiserlich-königlichen naturhistorischen Hofmuseums, Wien, 17(1), 1–253 + pls. 1–9.
  • Muir, F.A.G. (1923f) On the classification of the Fulgoroidea (Homoptera). Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society, 5, 205–247.
  • Scudder, S.H. (1882b) Nomenclator zoologicus. An alphabetical list of all generic names that have been employed by naturalists for recent and fossil animals from the earliest times to the close of the year 1879. II. Universal index to genera in zoology. Complete list of generic names employed in zoology and paleontology to the close of the year 1879, as contained in the nomenclators of Agassiz, Marschall, and Scudder, and in the Zoological Record. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 19, 1–340.
  • Stål, C. (1866a) Hemiptera Homoptera Latr. In Hemiptera Africana. Vol. 4, pp. 1–276 + pl. 1.
  • Stål, C. (1870c) Hemiptera insularum Philippinarum. Bidrag till Philippinska öarnes Hemipter-fauna. Öfversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, 27, 607–776 + pls. 7–9. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.61898

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RankExtantFossilInvalid Total
genus1067
species3104273