genus
Forculus Distant, 1912
Descendants and synonyms
Nomenclature (1)
- Forculus Distant, 1912c: 464.
type species by original monotypy Forculus peculiaris Distant, 1912
Type
Forculus peculiaris Distant, 1912 type species by original monotypy of Forculus Distant, 1912
Image matrix
No descendants observations found
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:
after Forculus, in Roman mythology, a minor god who protects the doors; from Latin: foris (door) + -culus (diminutive suffix)
Nomenclature references (1)
- Distant, W.L. (1912c) New genera and species of Oriental Homoptera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (Ser. 8), 9, 459–471.
Stats
| Taxon | Valid names | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Extant | Fossil | Invalid | Total |
| genus | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| species | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |