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Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (2)

  • Eilithyia Distant, 1912a: 184.

    type species by original monotypy Eilithyia insularis Distant, 1912

  • Eilithyia Distant, 1912 (classified as Isporisini Fennah, 1982) in Fennah, 1982a: 637.

Nomenclature references (2)

  • Distant, W.L. (1912a) Descriptions of new genera and species of Oriental Homoptera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (Ser. 8), 9(50), 181–194.
  • Fennah, R.G. (1982a) A tribal classification of the Tropiduchidae (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea), with the description of a new species on tea in Malaysia. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 72, 631–643.

Type

type species by original monotypy of Eilithyia Distant, 1912

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

after Eileithyia, the Greek goddess of childbirth, a daughter of Zeus and Hera

Image matrix

No descendants observations found

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1001
Species2002