species

Ceratogergithus spinosus (Che, Zhang & Wang, 2007)

Gergithus spinosus Che, Zhang & Wang, 2007a: 615.
Holotype; male; d1de8db2-700a-4521-85d4-0ad1a769acd2; deposited at: Entomological Museum, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China (NWAFU); China, Hainan Province: Jianfengling, or Jianfeng Mountain, 7.VI.1984, Lin Youdong
Gnezdilovius spinosus (Che, Zhang & Wang, 2007) in Meng, Webb & Wang, 2017a: 19.

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Latin: thorny, prickly; refers to the spiniform dorsocaudal angle of the pygofer

Che, Y.-L., Zhang, Y.-L. & Wang, Y.-L. (2007a) Seven new species and one new record of Gergithus Stål (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea: Issidae) from China. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 109(3), 611–627.
Gnezdilov, V.M. (2017k) Addenda to the revisions of the genera Gergithus Stål and Hemisphaerius Schaum (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha, Fulgoroidea: Issidae). Entomological Review, Washington, 97(9), 1338–1352. [originally submitted to Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie and is first published in translation] https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873817090123

Meng, R., Webb, M.D. & Wang, Y.-L. (2017a) Nomenclatural changes in the planthopper tribe Hemisphaeriini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Issidae), with the description of a new genus and a new species. European Journal of Taxonomy, 298, 1–25.
Zhang, Y.-L., Che, Y.-L., Meng, R. & Wang, Y.-L. (2020) Fauna Sinica. Insecta. Vol. 70. Hemiptera. Caliscelidae. Issidae. Science Press, Beijing, China, 655 pp., 43 pls. [in Chinese]

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Rank	Extant	Fossil	Invalid	Total
species	1	0	2	3