genus
Daltonia Oman, 1949
Descendants and synonyms
Nomenclature (1)
- Daltonia Oman, 1949a: 176.
type species by original designation Athysanus (Commellus) estacadus Ball, 1911
Type
Athysanus (Commellus) estacadus Ball, 1911 type species by original designation of Daltonia Oman, 1949
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:
in honor of John Dalton (1766–1844), an English chemist, physicist, and meteorologist + -ia (noun suffix)
Nomenclature references (1)
- Oman, P.W. (1949a) The Nearctic leafhoppers (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). A generic classification and check list. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Washington, 3, 1–253.
Stats
| Valid names | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Extant | Fossil | Invalid | Total | |
| genus | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| species | 3 | 0 | 8 | 11 | |