Genus
Alcmeone Stål, 1867
Descendants and synonyms
Nomenclature (4)
- Alcmeone Stål, 1867a: 558.
type species by original designation Hemiptycha centrotoides Fairmaire, 1846
- Alcemeone [sic] Stål, 1867 in Buckton, 1902a: 149.
- Alcemeone [sic] Stål, 1867 (misspelling of Alcmeone Stål, 1867) in Buckton, 1902a: 149.
- Alcmeone Stål, 1867 (classified as Darnides Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843) in González-Mozo, Dietrich, Cao, Newton & Ware, 2025: 897.
Nomenclature references (3)
- Stål, C. (1867a) Bidrag till Hemipterernas systematik. Öfversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, 24, 491–560.
- Buckton, G.B. (1902a) A monograph of the Membracidae. L. Reeve & Co., Limited. London, pp. 93–180, pls. XXIX-XXXVIII.
- González-Mozo, L.C., Dietrich, C.H., Cao, Y.-H., Newton, L.G. & Ware, J.L. (2025) Evolution of defensive strategies in the treehopper tribe Darnini (Hemiptera: Membracidae) revisited using anchored hybrid enrichment data. Systematic Entomology, 50(4), 886–902. https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12688
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:
after Alcmene (Greek: Ἀλκμήνη), in Greek mythology, a wife of Amphitryon, the mother of Heracles whose father was the god Zeus
Image matrix
No descendants observations found
Stats
| Taxon | Valid names | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Extant | Fossil | Invalid | Total |
| Genus | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Species | 11 | 0 | 13 | 24 |