genus

Rhissolepus Emeljanov, 1971

Descendants and synonyms

Rhissolepus Emeljanov, 1971a: 625.
type species by original designation Issus ergenensis Becker, 1865
Rissolepus [sic] Emeljanov, 1971 in Mitjaev, 2002a: 120.

Rissolepus [sic] Emeljanov, 1971 (misspelling of Rhissolepus Emeljanov, 1971) in Mitjaev, 2002a: 120.

Issus ergenensis Becker, 1865 type species by original designation of Rhissolepus Emeljanov, 1971

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Greek: ῥήσσω (to disrupt, burst) + λέπος (scale)

Emeljanov, A.F. (1971a) New genera of leafhoppers of the families Cixiidae and Issidae (Homoptera, Auchenorrhyncha) in the USSR [Новые роды цикадовых фауны СССР из семейств Cixiidae и Issidae (Homoptera, Auchenorrhyncha)]. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 50(3), 619–627. [in Russian; translated into English in Entomological Review, Washington, 1972, 50(3), 350–354]
Mitjaev, I.D. (2002a) Faune, ecology and zoogeography of leafhoppers (Homoptera, Cicadinea) of Kazakhstan. [Фауна, экология и зоогеография цикадовых (Homoptera, Cicadinea) Казахстана]. Tethys Entomological Research, 5, 1–168. [in Russian]