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Species

Cyphopterum retusum (Walker, 1851)

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (8)

  • Issus retusus Walker, 1851a: 371.

    Holotype; male; 97ba1c90-4100-40ae-8a54-81e18795f210; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Portugal: Madeira

  • Hysteropterum curvipenne Walker, 1858a: 45.

    Holotype; male; b4c9edc1-0885-444d-95e8-4969f148cebc; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); P Philip[pines?] Cotton

  • Cyphopterum azoricum Lindberg, 1958 (unnecessary replacement for Hysteropterum curvipenne Walker, 1858) in Remane & Leise, 1994: 81.
  • Cyphopterum obtusatum Melichar, 1923 (subjective synonym of Issus retusus Walker, 1851) in Machado & Aguín-Pombo, 2026: 12.

Nomenclature references (9)

  • Walker, F. (1851a) List of the specimens of homopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part II. London: Edward Newman, Vol. 2, 261–636 pp. + 3–4 pls.
  • Walker, F. (1858a) Homoptera. In Insecta saudersiana: or characters of undescribed insects in the collection of William Wilson Saunders. Esq. John Van Voorst. London. pp. 1–117.
  • Melichar, L. (1905b) Genera tria Fulgoridarum mundi antiqui. Annales Musei Historico-Naturalis Hungarici, 3, 473–477.
  • Distant, W.L. (1910d) Rhynchota Malayana. Part III. Records of the Indian Museum, 5, 313–338.
  • Melichar, L. (1923a) Homoptera, fam. Acanalonidae, Flatidae et Ricaniidae. Genera Insectorum, 182, 1–185 + pls. 1–2.
  • Lindberg, H. (1958a) Hemiptera Insularum Caboverdensium. Systematik, Ökologie und Verbreitung der Heteropteren und Cicadinen der Kapverdischen Inseln. Ergebnisse der Zoologischen Expedition von Professor Hảkan Lindberg nach den Kapverde-Inseln im Winter 1953-54, Nr. 22. Commentationes Biologicae. Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 19(1), 1–246.
  • Medler, J.T. (1990a) Types of Flatidae (Homoptera). XIV. Walker and Distant types in the British Museum. Oriental Insects, 24, 127–195.
  • Remane, R. & Leise, T. (1994) Zur Identität des Typus generis der Gattung Cyphopterum Mel. 1905 (Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Flatidae). Marburger Entomologische Publikationen, 2(8), 77–84.
  • Machado, S. & Aguín-Pombo, D. (2026) Nymphal development, morphology and life history of the Madeiran endemic planthoppers Cyphopterum retusum and C. fauveli (Hemiptera: Flatidae): taxonomic and conservation implications. Taxonomy, 6(44), 1–28. https://doi.org/10.3390/taxonomy6030044
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Latin: blunt, dull

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Species1045