Xosopsaltria Kirkaldy 1904

Sanborn, Allen F. & Villet, Martin H., 2016, Two new species of Xosopsaltria Kirkaldy, 1904, with a key to the species of South African pygmy bladder cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadettinae: Tettigomyiini), Zootaxa 4092 (2), pp. 195-206 : 195-196

Genus Xosopsaltria Kirkaldy 1904

Pydna Stål 1861: 621 .

Xosopsaltria Kirkaldy 1904: 280 (nom. nov. pro Pydna Stål, 1861 nec Pydna Walker, 1856 ).

TYPE SPECIES. Cicada lutea Olivier 1790 (Distant 1905a: 266) ( South Africa).

The type species for Pydna Stål 1861: 621 is Cicada lutea Olivier 1790 .

REMARKS. Cicada lutea remains the type species of the new genus Kirkaldy (1904) provided for the preoccupied name Pydna . Cicada lutea Olivier, 1790 is placed as a junior synonym of Cicada scurra Germar, 1830 by Kirkaldy (1909). This is admissible under articles 53.3 and 57.2 of the Code because Cicada lutea Olivier, 1790 is a primary homonym of Cicada lutea Gmelin, 1789 and Stål (1861) considered the species to be synonyms.