genus
Micracanthometra Mozaffarian & Bourgoin, 2025
Descendants and synonyms
Nomenclature (1)
- Micracanthometra Mozaffarian & Bourgoin, 2025: 47.
type species by original designation Tettigometra impressifrons Mulsant & Rey, 1855
Type
Tettigometra impressifrons Mulsant & Rey, 1855 type species by original designation of Micracanthometra Mozaffarian & Bourgoin, 2025
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:
Greek: μικρός (small) + άκανθα (thorn, spine) + Tettigometra (referring to the strongly reduced triangular mediodorsal process of the aedeagus)
Nomenclature references (1)
- Mozaffarian, F. & Bourgoin, T. (2025) A new comprehensive generic framework for Tettigometra Latreille, 1804 s.l.: a taxonomic and nomenclatural revision of the tribe Tettigometrini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha). Insects, 17(30), 1–76. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects17010030
Stats
| Taxon | Valid names | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Extant | Fossil | Invalid | Total |
| genus | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| species | 3 | 0 | 11 | 14 |