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Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (6)

  • Melampsalta zenobia Distant, 1912b: 649.

    Syntype; male; BMNH(E) 1009615; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Nepal, Gowchar. Syntype; adult; 2bf7edbd-b4de-48c0-b288-c09eeda3f958; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Nepal: Thankote. Syntype; adult; dfa68fd2-396a-4000-9bf6-b638d4a916c4; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Nepal: Nagorkote

  • Melampsalta kulingana Kato, 1938c: 27.
  • Melampsalta kulingana Kato, 1938 (subjective synonym of Melampsalta zenobia Distant, 1912) in Chou, Lei, Li, Lu & Yao, 1997a: 71.
  • Tibeta zenobia (Distant, 1912) in Chou, Lei, Li, Lu & Yao, 1997a: 71.

Nomenclature references (5)

  • Distant, W.L. (1912b) New genera and species of Rhynchota (Homoptera). Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (Ser. 8), 9, 640–652.
  • Kato, M. (1938c) Studies on Chinese Cicadidae in Musée Heude Collection. Bulletin of the Cicadidae Museum, 2, 1–28. [in Japanese]
  • Metcalf, Z.P. (1963g) General catalogue of the Homoptera. Fascicle VIII. Cicadoidea. Part 2. Tibicinidae. Baltimore, Md., Waverly press, vi + 492 pp.
  • Chou, I., Lei, Z.-R., Li, L., Lu, X.-L. & Yao, W. (1997a) The Cicadidae of China (Homoptera: Cicadoidea). Tianze Eldoneio, Hong Kong, 380 pp., 16 plts. [in Chinese]
  • Price, B.W., Allan, E.L., Marathe, K., Sarkar, V., Simon, C.M. & Kunte, K. (2016) The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, Nepal and Sri Lanka: an annotated provisional catalogue, regional checklist and bibliography. Biodiversity Data Journal, 4(e8051), 1–156. https://doi.org/10.3897/bdj.4.e8051
Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

after Zenobia (Greek: Ζηνοβία), a third century Queen of Palmyra

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Species1045