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Habitus, dorsal view on Alemaia Heller & Linnavuori, 1968: Alemaia parviceps, dorsally (INHS). (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view on Alemaia Heller & Linnavuori, 1968: Alemaia parviceps, dorsally (INHS). (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view on Alemaia Heller & Linnavuori, 1968: Alemaia producta, dorsal habitus (INHS). (Observation).
Habitus, lateral view on Alemaia Heller & Linnavuori, 1968: Alemaia parviceps, laterally (INHS). (Observation).
Habitus, lateral view on Alemaia Heller & Linnavuori, 1968: Alemaia producta, lateral habitus (INHS). (Observation).

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (3)

  • Alemaia Heller & Linnavuori, 1968a: 6.

    type species by original designation Alemaia parviceps Heller & Linnavuori, 1968

  • Alemaia Heller & Linnavuori, 1968 (classified as Scaphoideini Oman, 1943) in Zahniser & Dietrich, 2013a: 151.
  • Alemaia Heller & Linnavuori, 1968 (incertae sedis in Scaphoideini Oman, 1943) in Zahniser, Dietrich, Cao, Dmitriev & Pinedo-Escatel, 2026: 26.

Nomenclature references (3)

  • Heller, F.R. & Linnavuori, R.E. (1968a) Cicadelliden aus Äthiopien. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde aus dem Staatlichen Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, 186, 1–42. [in German]
  • Zahniser, J.N. & Dietrich, C.H. (2013a) A review of the tribes of Deltocephalinae (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae). European Journal of Taxonomy, 45, 1–211. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2013.45
  • Zahniser, J.N., Dietrich, C.H., Cao, Y.-H., Dmitriev, D.A. & Pinedo-Escatel, J.A. (2026) New tribal placements, reinstatements and synonymies in the leafhopper subfamily Deltocephalinae (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae). European Journal of Taxonomy, 1035, 1–51. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2026.1035.3171

Type

type species by original designation of Alemaia Heller & Linnavuori, 1968

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

from Irga-Alem (South Africa) + -ia (noun suffix)

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
Species2002