genus

Stictopelta Stål, 1869

Darnis (Stictopelta) Stål, 1869a: 32.
type species by original monotypy Darnis bipunctata Burmeister, 1836
Stictopelta Stål, 1869 in Goding, 1892a: 255.
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Sticopelta [sic] Stål, 1869 (misspelling of Darnis (Stictopelta) Stål, 1869) in Ball, 1933a: 28.
Darnis (Stictopelta) Stål, 1869 (classified as Darnides Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843) in González-Mozo, Dietrich, Cao, Newton & Ware, 2025: 897.

Darnis bipunctata Burmeister, 1836 type species by original monotypy of Stictopelta Stål, 1869

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Greek: στικτός (marked, spotted) + πέλτη (shield, scutum)

Ball, E.D. (1933a) Some new treehoppers from the Southwest with notes on others. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 46, 25–32.
Goding, F.W. (1892a) A synopsis of the subfamilies and genera of the Membracidae of North America. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 19, 253–260.

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
Stål, C. (1869a) Hemiptera Fabriciana. Fabricianska Hemipterarter, efter de i Köpenhamn och Kiel förvarade typexemplaren granskade och beskrifne. 2. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar, 8(1), 1–130.