Genus
Melanetettix Knight & Fletcher, 2007
Descendants and synonyms
Nomenclature (3)
- Melanetettix Knight & Fletcher, 2007a: 200.
type species by original designation Melanetettix semeraroae Knight & Fletcher, 2007
- Melanetettix Knight & Fletcher, 2007 (classified as Scaphoideini Oman, 1943) in Zahniser & Dietrich, 2013a: 152.
- Melanetettix Knight & Fletcher, 2007 (incertae sedis in Scaphoideini Oman, 1943) in Zahniser, Dietrich, Cao, Dmitriev & Pinedo-Escatel, 2026: 26.
Nomenclature references (3)
- Knight, W.J. & Fletcher, M.J. (2007a) A new deltocephaline leafhopper genus, Melanetettix, from Melanesia (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae). Systematics and Biodiversity, 5(2), 199–222.
- 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
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:
from Melanesia Islands (Oceania), from Greek: μέλας (dark) + νῆσος (island) + τέττιξ (cicada)
Image matrix
No descendants observations found
Stats
| Taxon | Valid names | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Extant | Fossil | Invalid | Total |
| Genus | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Species | 23 | 0 | 1 | 24 |