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World Auchenorrhyncha Database (WAD)
Genus

Memnonia Ball, 1900

Head on Memnonia Ball, 1900: Memnonia brunnea, male, head, laterally. (Observation).
Head on Memnonia Ball, 1900: Memnonia brunnea, male, head, laterally. (Observation).
Head on Memnonia Ball, 1900: Memnonia consobrina, female, face. (Observation).
Head on Memnonia Ball, 1900: Memnonia consobrina, male, head, pronotum, and mesonotum, dorsally. (Observation).
Head on Memnonia Ball, 1900: Memnonia brunnea, female, face. (Observation).
Head on Memnonia Ball, 1900: Memnonia brunnea, female, head, pronotum, and mesonotum, dorsally. (Observation).
Head on Memnonia Ball, 1900: Memnonia brunnea, female, head, laterally. (Observation).
Head on Memnonia Ball, 1900: Memnonia consobrina, female, head, pronotum, and mesonotum, dorsally. (Observation).
Forewing on Memnonia Ball, 1900: Memnonia consobrina, forewing. (Observation).
Forewing on Memnonia Ball, 1900: Memnonia brunnea, female, forewing. (Observation).
Forewing on Memnonia Ball, 1900: Memnonia brunnea, male, forewing. (Observation).
Hind wing on Memnonia Ball, 1900: Memnonia brunnea, male, hindwing. (Observation).
Hind wing on Memnonia Ball, 1900: Memnonia consobrina, hindwing. (Observation).
Hind wing on Memnonia Ball, 1900: Memnonia brunnea, female, hindwing. (Observation).

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (1)

  • Memnonia Ball, 1900a: 66.

    type species by original designation Memnonia consobrina Ball, 1900

Nomenclature references (1)

  • Ball, E.D. (1900a) Notes on the Acocephalina (Homoptera-Jassidae). Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 7, 64–72.

Type

type species by original designation of Memnonia Ball, 1900

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Latin: memnonia (precious stone, black in color), from Greek: Μέμνων (Memnon), an Ethiopian king and son of Tithonus and Eos

Image matrix

No descendants observations found

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1001
Species1701936