Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (4)

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

    type species by original monotypy † Lithopsis fimbriata Scudder, 1878

  • Lithopsis Scudder, 1878 (classified as Tropiduchida Stål, 1866) in Scudder, 1878c: 773.
  • Lithopsis Scudder, 1878 (classified as Flatidae Spinola, 1839) in Metcalf & Wade, 1966a: 132.
  • 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 (3)

  • Metcalf, Z.P. & Wade, V. (1966a) General catalogue of the Homoptera. A supplement to Fascicle I - Membracidae of the general catalogue of the Hemiptera. A catalogue of the fossil Homoptera. (Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha). USA: Waverly Press, Inc. Baltimore, MD, V + 245 p.
  • 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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