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
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
| Valid names | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Extant | Fossil | Invalid | Total | |
| genus | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| species | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |