genus

Capelopterum Melichar, 1906

Capelopterum Melichar, 1906a: 210. (valid)
type species by subsequent designation Capelopterum dohrni Melichar, 1906 in Schmidt, 1910c: 167
Capelopterum Melichar, 1906 (subjective synonym of Narayana Distant, 1906) in Distant, 1916a: 97.

Copelopterum [sic] Melichar, 1906 in Bergevin, 1918f: 66.
Copelopterum [sic] Melichar, 1906 (misspelling of Capelopterum Melichar, 1906) in Bergevin, 1918f: 66.

Capelopterum dohrni Melichar, 1906 type species by subsequent designation of Capelopterum Melichar, 1906

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Greek: καπέλο (hat, cap) + πτερόν (wing)

de Bergevin, E. (1918f) Description d'un nouveau genre et d'une nouvelle espèce d'Issidae (Hemipt. Homopt.) de la province d'Oran. Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Afrique du Nord, 9, 65–70.
Distant, W.L. (1916a) Rhynchota - Vol. VI. Homoptera: Appendix. In A.E. Shipley & G.A.K. Marshall (Eds.). The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Published under the authority of the Secretary of State for India in Council. Taylor and Francis. London. Vol. 6, pp. i-vii + 1–248.

Melichar, L. (1906a) Monographie der Issiden. (Homoptera). Abhandlungen der K. K. Zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien. Wien, 3, 1–327.
Schmidt, E. (1910c) Die Issinen des Stettiner Museums. (Hemiptera-Homoptera). Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung, 71, 146–221.