genus
Zaletta Metcalf, 1952
Descendants and synonyms
Nomenclature (5)
- Macrocerus Evans, 1941e: 39.
type species by original designation Macrocerus minutus Evans, 1941
- Macrocerus Evans, 1941 (homonym of Macrocerus Oken, 1817)
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- Macrocerus Evans, 1941 (replaced by Zaletta Metcalf, 1952) in Metcalf, 1952a: 229.
- Zaletta Metcalf, 1952 (classified as Balocerini Xue, Dietrich & Zhang, 2020) in Xue, Dietrich & Zhang, 2020: 696.
Type
Macrocerus minutus Evans, 1941 type species by original designation of Zaletta Metcalf, 1952
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:
after Zaletta, an Indian princess from Andreas Hesselius' (1740) play "Friendship and fidelity until death, or, the Indian princess Zaletta"
Nomenclature references (3)
- Evans, J.W. (1941e) New Australian leaf-hoppers. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 65(1), 36–41.
- Metcalf, Z.P. (1952a) New names in the Homoptera. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 42, 226–231.
- Xue, Q.-Q., Dietrich, C.H. & Zhang, Y.-L. (2020) Phylogeny and classification of the leafhopper subfamily Eurymelinae (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) inferred from molecules and morphology. Systematic Entomology, 45(3), 687–702. https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12425
Stats
| Valid names | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Extant | Fossil | Invalid | Total | |
| genus | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| species | 25 | 0 | 14 | 39 | |