genus

Heliona Melichar, 1903

Heliona Melichar, 1903b: 215.
type species by subsequent designation Heliona constricta Melichar, 1903 in Distant, 1908g
Omiya Dworakowska, 1981b: 40.
type species by original designation Omiya secunda Dworakowska, 1981
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Omiya Dworakowska, 1981 (subjective synonym of Heliona Melichar, 1903) in Dworakowska, 1994d
Heliona Melichar, 1903 (classified as Empoascaria Distant, 1908) in Xu, Dietrich, Zhang, Dmitriev, Zhang, Wang, Lu & Qin, 2021: 275.

Heliona constricta Melichar, 1903 type species by subsequent designation of Heliona Melichar, 1903

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Greek: ήλιος (sun) + -ona (related to)

Distant, W.L. (1908g) Rhynchota. IV. Homoptera and appendix (Pt.). In The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. London: Taylor & Francis. pp. 1–419. [XV + 501 pp.]
Dworakowska, I. (1981b) On the genera Acia McAtee and Omiya gen. n. (Typhlocybinae, Cicadellidae). Annotationes Zoologicae et Botanicae, Bratislava, 141, 1–47.
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Oman, P.W., Knight, W.J. & Nielson, M.W. (1990a) Leafhoppers (Cicadellidae): a bibliography, generic check-list and index to the world literature 1956-1985. CAB International Institute of Entomology, Wallingford, UK. (iv) + 368 pp.
Xu, Y., Dietrich, C.H., Zhang, Y.-L., Dmitriev, D.A., Zhang, L., Wang, Y.-M., Lu, S.-H. & Qin, D.-Z. (2021) Phylogeny of the tribe Empoascini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) based on morphological characteristics, with reclassification of the Empoasca generic group. Systematic Entomology, 46, 266–286, 4 supplements. https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12461