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Genus

Alocha Melichar, 1926

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (7)

  • Alocha Melichar, 1926a: 342. (valid in Cavichioli, 1996a: 667)

    type species by subsequent designation Tettigonia sordida Signoret, 1856 in China, 1938d: 183

  • Allocha [sic] Melichar, 1926 in Evans, 1947a: 158.
  • Scarisana Metcalf, 1949 (subjective synonym of Paromenia Melichar, 1926) in Young, 1977a: 263.
  • Scarisana Metcalf, 1949 (subjective synonym of Alocha Melichar, 1926) in Cavichioli, 1996a: 677.

Nomenclature references (6)

  • Melichar, L. (1926a) Monographie der Cicadellinen. III. Annales Musei Historico-Naturalis Hungarici, 23, 273–394.
  • China, W.E. (1938d) Melichar's "Monographie der Cicadellinen". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (Ser. 11), 2, 182–185.
  • Evans, J.W. (1947a) A natural classification of leaf-hoppers (Jassoidea, Homoptera). Part 3: Jassidae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 98, 105–271.
  • Metcalf, Z.P. (1949b) Tettigellidae and Gyponidae (Homoptera) of Kartabo, Bartica District, British Guiana. Zoologica. Scientific Contributions of the New York Zoological Society, 34, 259–279.
  • Young, D.A., Jr. (1977a) Taxonomic study of the Cicadellinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Part 2. New World Cicadellini and the genus Cicadella. Technical Bulletin of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, 239, 1–1135.
  • Cavichioli, R.R. (1996a) Albiniana, gen. nov. e revalidação de Alocha Melichar, 1926 (Homoptera, Cicadellidae, Cicadellinae). Revista Brasileira de Zoologia, 13, 677–683.

Type

type species by subsequent designation of Alocha Melichar, 1926

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Greek: ἄλοχος (wife)

Image matrix

No descendants observations found

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1023
Species50712