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Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (3)

  • Tettigoniella alcmena Distant, 1908g: 219.

    Lectotype; male; f8714b29-2c3e-4d88-9baa-a7a5a8996d59; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); India: Margherita, Assam, Distant Coll., 1911

  • Tettigella alcmena (Distant, 1908) in Metcalf, 1965a: 131.
  • Atkinsoniella alcmena (Distant, 1908) in Young, 1986a: 96.

Nomenclature references (4)

  • Distant, W.L. (1908g) Rhynchota. IV. Homoptera and appendix (Pt.). In The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. London: Taylor & Francis. pp. 1–419. [XV + 501 pp.]
  • Metcalf, Z.P. (1965a) General catalogue of the Homoptera. Fascicle VI. Cicadelloidea. Part 1. Tettigellidae. Washington, D.C., USDA, II+730 pp.
  • Young, D.A., Jr. (1965c) Cicadelline types in the British Museum (Natural History) (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology, 17(4), 163–199.
  • Young, D.A., Jr. (1986a) Taxonomic study of the Cicadellinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Part 3. Old World Cicadellini. Technical Bulletin of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, 281, 1–639.
Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

after Alcmene (Greek: Ἀλκμήνη), in Greek mythology, a wife of Amphitryon, a mother of Heracles whose father was the god Zeus

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Species1023