genus
Hemikyptha Metcalf, 1927
Descendants and synonyms
Nomenclature (6)
- Hemikyptha Metcalf, 1927a: 16.
type species by original designation Membracis punctata Fabricius, 1775
- Hemikypta [sic] Metcalf, 1927 in da Costa Lima, 1942a: 51.
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- Hemikyphta [sic] Metcalf, 1927 (misspelling of Hemikyptha Metcalf, 1927) in Müller, 1949a: 356.
- Hemikyptha Metcalf, 1927 (classified as Darnides Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843) in González-Mozo, Dietrich, Cao, Newton & Ware, 2025: 897.
Type
Membracis punctata Fabricius, 1775 type species by original designation of Hemikyptha Metcalf, 1927
Image matrix
No descendants observations found
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:
partial anagram of Hemiptycha
Nomenclature references (4)
- da Costa Lima, Â.M. (1942a) Insetos do Brasil. 3. Tomo. Homópteros. Escola Nacional de Agronomia, Rio de Janeiro, Vol. 3, 327 pp.
- 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
- Metcalf, Z.P. (1927a) Homopterological cleanings No. 2. The types of certain genera of Membracidae. Entomological News, 38, 14–17.
- Müller, H.J. (1949a) Zur Systematik und Phylogenie der Zikaden-Endosymbiosen. Biologisches Zentralblatt, 68, 343–368.
Stats
| Taxon | Valid names | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Extant | Fossil | Invalid | Total |
| genus | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| species | 7 | 0 | 27 | 34 |