Xestocephalus ovalis

Taxonavigation[edit]

Taxonavigation: Membracoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Paraneoptera Superordo: Condylognatha Ordo: Hemiptera Subordo: Auchenorrhyncha Infraordo: Cicadomorpha Superfamilia: Membracoidea

Xestocephalus ovalis Evans, 1966

Original status: valid species
Authority for current placement: original - undisputed by all subsequent authorities
Primary type: holotype
- Fixation: designated and presumably unique
- Repository: MONZ, as 'Dominion Museum' [lost?]
- Type locality: 'Wellington, New Zealand'

Evans, J.W. 1966: The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand (Homoptera: Cicadelloidea and Cercopoidea). Australian Museum memoir, (12) DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1967.12.1966.425 [first availability, see p. 256, and fig. 39, B]

Knight, W.J. 1975 ("1974"). Leaf hoppers of New Zealand: subfamilies Aphrodinae, Jassinae, Xestocephalinae, Idiocerinae, and Macropsinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). New Zealand journal of zoology 1(4): 475–493. DOI: 10.1080/03014223.1974.9517848 . Reference page. [see p. 479, and figs. 2, 5a]

Barratt, B.I.P. & Patrick, B.H. 1987. Insects of snow tussock grassland on the East Otago Plateau. New Zealand Entomologist 10(1): 69–98. DOI: 10.1080/00779962.1987.9722513 . Reference page. [see p. 79, some confusion here: 'European species widely distributed in N.Z.; often associated with Populus spp.']
Larivière, M.-C., Fletcher, M.J. & Larochelle, A. 2010. Auchenorrhyncha (Insecta: Hemiptera): catalogue. Fauna of New Zealand 63: 1–232. DOI: 10.7931/J2/FNZ.63 . Reference page. [see p. 79]
Watt, J.C. 1982: Terrestrial arthropods from the Poor Knights Islands, New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 12(3): 283–320. BUGZ Google books [p. 295]