Oryxa

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

Oryxa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Infraorder: Fulgoromorpha
Family: Flatidae
Tribe: Flatini
Genus: Oryxa
Melichar, 1902
Type species
Oryxa truncata Melichar, 1902
(= Oryxa melichari Kirkcaldy, 1913)

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]

Species

Fulgoromorpha Lists on the Web[4] includes:

  1. Oryxa carinulata (Schmidt, 1904)
  2. Oryxa extendens Melichar, 1902
  3. Oryxa melichari Kirkaldy, 1913

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.
  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.
  3. John T. Medler (1996). "Flatidae of Borneo, with descriptions of new genera and species (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea)" (PDF). Oriental Insects. 30: 11–96. doi:10.1080/00305316.1996.10433829.
  4. Fulgoromorpha Lists On the Web (FLOW): Genus Oryxa Melichar, 1901 (retrieved 5 August 2022)
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