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Iassus

Insecta - Hemiptera - Cicadellidae

Taxonomy

Iassus was named by Fabricius (1803). It is extant. It is the type genus of Jassidae, Iassinae, Iassini.

It was assigned to Ryngota by Fabricius (1803); to Jassidae by Scudder (1890); to Iassinae by Dietrich et al. (2017); and to Iassini by Krishnankutty et al. (2016), Borodin and Borodina (2021).

Species

Bythoscopus homousius, Bythoscopus lapidescens, Bythoscopus melanoneurus, Bythoscopus muscarius, Bythoscopus pulcher, Jassus immersus, Jassus latebrae, Jassus spinicornis

Synonyms

Bythoscopus was named by Germar (1833). It is extant.

It was synonymized objectively with Iassus by Dietrich and Thomas (2018).

It was assigned to Jassidae by Scudder (1890); to Tettigoniidae by Scudder (1877), Piton (1940); to Bythoscopini by Statz (1950); and to Cicadellidae by Szwedo (2010).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1803	Iassus Fabricius p. 85
1833	Bythoscopus Germar
1877	Bythoscopus Scudder p. 761
1890	Bythoscopus Scudder p. 304
1890	Jassus Scudder p. 308
1940	Bythoscopus Piton p. 165
1950	Bythoscopus Statz p. 11
2010	Bythoscopus Szwedo
2016	Iassus Krishnankutty et al.
2017	Iassus Dietrich et al.
2021	Iassus Borodin and Borodina p. 164

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa	Aguinaldo et al. 1997
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Gravenhorst 1843
—	Deuteropoda
—	Mandibulata
—	Pancrustacea	Zrzavý and Štys 1997
—	Altocrustacea	Regier et al. 2010
superclass	Allotriocarida
—	Athalassocarida
—	Labiocarida	Schwentner et al. 2017
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
—	Cercofilata
class	Insecta

Rank	Name	Author
—	Dicondylia
—	Paranotalia
subclass	Pterygota	()
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
—	Clareocercaria
—	Acercaria	()
superorder	Pancondylognatha
—	Condylognatha
order	Hemiptera
suborder	Auchenorrhyncha	()
infraorder	Cicadomorpha	Evans 1946
superfamily	Membracoidea	Rafinesque 1815
family	Cicadellidae	()
subfamily	Iassinae
tribe	Iassini
genus	Iassus

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Iassus Fabricius 1803

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†Jassus immersus Germar and Berendt 1856

†Jassus latebrae Scudder 1890

†Jassus spinicornis Germar and Berendt 1856

Invalid names: Bythoscopus Germar 1833 [objective synonym]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

chitinc

Environment:

terrestrialc

Locomotion:

actively mobilep

Created:

2017-04-17 09:56:18

Modified:

2017-04-17 09:56:18

Source: c = class, p = phylum

References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: base of the Selandian to the top of the Sarmatian or 61.66000 to 11.63000 Ma

Collections (6 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Selandian	61.66 - 59.24	France (Auvergne)	Bythoscopus pulcher (113685)
Bridgerian	50.5 - 46.2	USA (Colorado)	Bythoscopus lapidescens (121146)
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	Poland	Bythoscopus homousius, Jassus immersus, Jassus spinicornis (109625)
Chadronian	37.0 - 33.9	USA (Colorado)	Jassus latebrae (106384)
Chattian	27.3 - 23.04	France (Bouches-Du-Rhone)	Bythoscopus muscarius (122876)
Sarmatian	12.8 - 11.63	Croatia	Bythoscopus melanoneurus (122873)