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Macugonalia leucomelas (Walker, 1851)

Habitus, dorsal view: !! display not done !! on Macugonalia leucomelas (Walker, 1851): Specimen from Parque Nacional do Itatiaia, Southeastern Brazil, by C. M. F. Silva 2014. (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view: !! display not done !! on Macugonalia leucomelas (Walker, 1851): Specimen from Parque Nacional do Itatiaia, Southeastern Brazil, by C. M. F. Silva 2014. (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view: !! display not done !! on Macugonalia leucomelas (Walker, 1851): Specimen from Parque Nacional do Itatiaia, Southeastern Brazil, by C. M. F. Silva 2014. (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view: !! display not done !! on Macugonalia leucomelas (Walker, 1851): Macugonalia leucomelas @ Brazil (MS), by D. M. Takiya. (Observation).

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (8)

  • Tettigonia leucomelas Walker, 1851b: 764.

    Holotype; female; a2c95815-c851-44cb-9155-3119317ea414; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Brazil: Huyutanahan, Rio Purus, Saint Cloudies, January-February 1922

  • Tettigonia albopunctulata Taschenberg, 1884a: 440.

    Lectotype; female; 129ef24d-8114-416d-9231-eb4b219f8781; deposited at: Martin Luther Universität, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany (MLUH); Venez. Moritz.

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  • Tettigonia albopunctulata Taschenberg, 1884 (subjective synonym of Tettigonia leucomelas Walker, 1851) in Young, 1977a: 944.
  • Macugonalia leucomelas (Walker, 1851) in Young, 1977a: 944.

Nomenclature references (7)

  • Mendes, L.O.T. (1938a) Obsevações sôbre alguns insectos coletados sôbre algodoeiro durante os anos de 1936 e 1937. Boletim Técnico. Instituto Agronômico do Estado, em Campinas, 45, 1–15.
  • Metcalf, Z.P. (1965a) General catalogue of the Homoptera. Fascicle VI. Cicadelloidea. Part 1. Tettigellidae. Washington, D.C., USDA, II+730 pp.
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  • Osborn, H. (1926b) Neotropical Homoptera of the Carnegie Museum. Part 5. Report upon the collections in the subfamily Cicadellinae, with descriptions of new species. Annals of the Carnegie Museum, 16, 155–248 + pls. 11–16.
  • Taschenberg, E.L. (1884a) Zur Kenntniss der Cicadellinen-Gattung Tettigonia Geoffr. Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaften, 57, 431–455.
  • Walker, F. (1851b) List of the specimens of homopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part III. London: Edward Newman, Vol. 3, 637–907.
  • 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. (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.
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Greek: λευκός (white) + μέλας (black)

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