Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (8)

  • Hea Distant, 1906g: 121.

    type species by original monotypy Hea fasciata Distant, 1906

  • Kinoshitaia Ôuchi, 1938a: 106.

    type species by original designation Kinoshitaia sinensis Ôuchi, 1938

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  • Hua [sic] Distant, 1906 (misspelling of Hea Distant, 1906) in Chou, Lei, Li, Lu & Yao, 1997a: 83.
  • Hea Distant, 1906 (classified as Cicadetta Buckton, 1890) in Sanborn, 2023: 448.

Type

Hea fasciata Distant, 1906 type species by original monotypy of Hea Distant, 1906

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

after Hea, in Mesopotamian mythology, the goddess of wisdom

Nomenclature references (5)

  • 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]
  • Distant, W.L. (1906g) Description of a new genus and species of Cicadidae from China. Entomologist, 39, 121–122.
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  • Metcalf, Z.P. (1963e) General catalogue of the Homoptera. Fascicle VIII. Cicadoidea. Part 1. Cicadidae. Section I. Tibiceninae. Baltimore, Md.: Waverly press, vii + 585 p.
  • Sanborn, A.F. (2023) The taxonomic position of the cicada genus Hea Distant, 1906 (Hemiptera: Cicadidae). Zootaxa, 5254(3), 447–450. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5254.3.11
  • Ôuchi, Y. (1938a) Contributions ad cognitionems insectorum Asiae Orientalis. V. A preliminary note on some Chinese cicadas with two new genera. The Journal of the Shanghai Science Institute. Section III. Systematic and Morphological Biology (Systematics, Ecology, Anatomy, Histology and Embryology) and Pharmacognosy, 4, 75–111.

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