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genus

Morsina Melichar, 1902

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (11)

  • Morsina Melichar, 1902c: 97.

    type species by original monotypy Morsina persica Melichar, 1902

  • Rileyopsis Bergevin, 1917a: 309.

    type species by original monotypy Rileyopsis peyerimhoffi Bergevin, 1917

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  • Rileyopsis Bergevin, 1917 (subjective synonym of Morsina Melichar, 1902) in Gnezdilov & Mozaffarian, 2020: 159.
  • Mikewilsonia Holzinger, 2019 (subjective synonym of Morsina Melichar, 1902) in Gnezdilov, López & Suárez, 2023: 568.

Type

Morsina persica Melichar, 1902 type species by original monotypy of Morsina Melichar, 1902

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

after Morsina, female given name or Morzsina (Romania)

Nomenclature references (8)

  • China, W.E. (1938a) Hemiptera from Iraq, Iran, and Arabia. Zoological series of Field Museum of Natural History. Chicago, 20, 427–437.
  • de Bergevin, E. (1917a) Descriptions d'un nouveau genre et d'une nouvelle espèce d'Issidae des hauts plateaux algériens. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France, 1917, 309–312.
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  • Dlabola, J. (1981a) Ergebnisse der Tschechoslowakisch-Iranischen Entomologischen Expeditionen nach dem Iran.(1970 und 1973). (Mit Angaben über einige Sammelresultate in Anatolien) Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha (II. Teil). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, 40, 127–308.
  • Gnezdilov, V.M. & Mozaffarian, F. (2020) On the genera Issidius Puton and Morsina Melichar (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Fulgoroidea: Nogodinidae: Epacriini). Zootaxa, 4802(1), 157–168. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4802.1.10
  • Gnezdilov, V.M., López, H. & Suárez, D. (2023) Family Nogodinidae (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea) from the Canary Islands, with the description of a new species of the genus Morsina Melichar, 1902. Zootaxa, 5231(5), 567–574. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5231.5.5
  • Holzinger, W.E. (2019) A new genus and three new species of Nogodinidae from North Africa (Insecta, Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha, Fulgoromorpha). Linzer biologische Beiträge, 51(2), 933–948.
  • Melichar, L. (1902c) Homopteren aus West-China, Persien und dem Süd-Ussuri-Gebiete. Annuaire du Musée Zoologique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg, 7, 76–146 + pl. 5. [separate paged 1-71]
  • Nast, J. (1972a) Palaearctic Auchenorrhyncha (Homoptera). An annotated check list. Polish Scientific Publishers, Warszawa, 550 pp.

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RankExtantFossilInvalid Total
genus1056
species1601632