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species

Maiestas alcanor (Linnavuori, 1969)

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (2)

  • Recilia alcanor Linnavuori, 1969a: 1182.

    Holotype; male; 1b85a1cf-f8f8-4590-ac07-a6d2e1657e2e; deposited at: Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (MNHN); Republic of Congo: Odzala, X.1963, Coll. A. Villiers, A. Descarpentries

  • Maiestas alcanor (Linnavuori, 1969) in Webb & Viraktamath, 2009a: 17.

Nomenclature references (3)

  • Linnavuori, R.E. (1969a) Contribution à la faune du Congo (Brazzaville). Mission A. Villiers et A. Descarpentries XCIII. Hemipteres Hylicidae et Cicadellidae. Bulletin de l'Institut Francaise d'Afrique Noire. Série A: Sciences Naturelles, 31(4), 1129–1185.
  • Lozada, P.W. & Bourgoin, T. (2000) Especímenes tipo de Cicadellidae en la coleccíon del Muséum National D'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (Hemiptera). Revue Française d'Entomologie (Nouvelle Série), 22(1), 17–36. [in Spanish; Castilian]
  • Webb, M.D. & Viraktamath, C.A. (2009a) Annotated check-list, generic key and new species of Old World Deltocephalini leafhoppers with nomenclatorial changes in the Deltocephalus group and other Deltocephalinae (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha, Cicadellidae). Zootaxa, 2163, 1–64.
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

after Alcanor, in Greek mythology, an ally of Turnus wounded by Aeneas during the Italian wars

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
Taxon Valid names
Rank Extant Fossil Invalid Total
species1012