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Gargara (Gargara) discoidea Dmitriev & Deitz, 2017, nom.nov.

Description

Gargara (Gargara) discoidea nom.nov.

= Gargara (Gargara) discoidalis Ananthasubramanian, 1980:30 (from India) primary homonym of Cyrtolobus discoidalis (Emmons, 1854:157) (original genus Gargara; from the USA).

Etymology: proposed species name derived from a Latin adjective discoideus – “disk-shaped”.

Notes

Published as part of Dmitriev, Dmitry A. & Deitz, Lewis L., 2017, Nomenclatural changes in the family Membracidae (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha, Membracoidea) in Zootaxa 4365 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4365.1.7, http://zenodo.org/record/1125311

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Dmitriev & Deitz
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Membracidae
Genus
Gargara
Species
discoidea
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic status
nom. nov.
Taxonomic concept label
Gargara (Gargara) discoidea Dmitriev & Deitz, 2017

References

  • Ananthasubramanian, K. S. (1980) Descriptions of a new genus and some new species of Membracidae (Homoptera) in the collections of the Zoological Survey of India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India Occasional Paper Suppl., 16, 1 - 36.
  • Emmons, E. (1854) Order V. Homoptera. Agriculture of New-York: comprising an account of the classification, composition and distribution of the soils and rocks; together with a condensed view of the climate and the agricultural productions of the state, 5. C. Van Benthuysen. Albany, pp. 1 - 272, i - viii.