Oryxa

Oryxa
Oryxa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Family: Flatidae
Genus: Oryxa
Melichar, 1902
Type species
Oryxa truncata Melichar, 1902
(= Oryxa melichari Kirkcaldy, 1913)

Oryxa is a genus of insects in the hemipteran family Flatidae. They live on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra, and in Malaysia.

The genus was established in 1902 by Leopold Melichar in his monograph of the families Acanaloniidae and Flatidae.[1][2] Melichar designated Carl Linnaeus' O. truncata to be the type species of his new genus, but Melichar's specimens were not of the species described by Linnaeus. A replacement name of Oryxa melichari was therefore chosen for Melichar's species; the status of Linnaeus' species remains unclear.[3]

References

  1. ^ L. Melichar (1901). "Monographie der Acanaloniiden und Flatiden (Homoptera) [Monograph of Acanaloniidae and Flatidae (Homoptera)]". Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 16: 178–258. http://www.archive.org/stream/annalendesnaturh16natu. 
  2. ^ L. Melichar (1902). "Monographie der Acanaloniiden und Flatiden (Homoptera) (Fortsetzung) [Monograph of Acanaloniidae and Flatidae (Homoptera) (continued)]". Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 17: 1–253. http://www.archive.org/stream/annalendesnaturh17natu. 
  3. ^ John T. Medler (1996). "Flatidae of Borneo, with descriptions of new genera and species (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea)" (PDF). Oriental Insects 30: 11–96. http://ag.udel.edu/delpha/3113.pdf. 

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