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Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (9)

  • Cicada xantes Walker, 1850a: 198.

    Holotype; male; BMNH(E) 1009566; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); North India

  • Cicada subvenosa Walker, 1858a: 18.
  • Cicadatra xanthes [sic] Walker, 1850 in Ahmed, Sanborn & Hill, 2010a: 78.
  • Cicadatra xanthes [sic] Walker, 1850 (misspelling of Cicada xantes Walker, 1850) in Ahmed, Sanborn & Hill, 2010a: 78.

Nomenclature references (8)

  • Walker, F. (1850a) List of the specimens of homopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. London: Edward Newman, Vol. 1, 1–260. pl. 1–2.
  • Walker, F. (1858a) Homoptera. In Insecta saudersiana: or characters of undescribed insects in the collection of William Wilson Saunders. Esq. John Van Voorst. London. pp. 1–117.
  • Stål, C. (1862b) Synonymiska och systematiska anteckningar öfver Hemiptera. Öfversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, 19, 479–504.
  • Atkinson, E.F.T. (1885b) Notes on Indian Rhynchota, No. 3. Journal and Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 54(2), 76–117.
  • Distant, W.L. (1892b) A monograph of Oriental Cicadidae. West, Newman & Co.; R. Friedlander & Sohn. London; Berlin, xiv + 97–158 pp. + pls. x-xv.
  • Distant, W.L. (1906i) Rhynchota. Heteroptera-Homoptera. Bingham, C. T. (ed.). The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Taylor and Francis, London. Vol. 3: i–xiv, 1–503.
  • Ahmed, Z., Sanborn, A.F. & Hill, K.B.R. (2010a) A new species of the cicada genus Cicadatra from Pakistan (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae). Zoology in the Middle East, 51, 75–81.
  • 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:

Greek: ξανθός (yellow)

Stats

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