Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (3)

  • Lithopsis Scudder, 1878c: 773. (fossil)

    type species by original monotypy † Lithopsis fimbriata Scudder, 1878

  • Lithopsis Scudder, 1878 (classified as Flatidae Spinola, 1839)
  • Lithopsis Scudder, 1878 (classified as Nogodini Melichar, 1898) in Shcherbakov, 2006a: 319.

Type

Lithopsis fimbriata Scudder, 1878 type species by original monotypy of † Lithopsis Scudder, 1878

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Greek: λίθος (stone) + όψις (appearance, similar to)

Nomenclature references (2)

  • Scudder, S.H. (1878c) The fossil insects of the Green River shales. Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, 4, 747–776.
  • Shcherbakov, D.E. (2006a) The earliest find of Tropiduchidae (Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha), representing a new tribe, from the Eocene of Green River, USA, with notes on the fossil record of higher Fulgoroidea. Russian Entomological Journal, 15(3), 315–322.

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