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Genus

Telamona Fitch, 1851

Telamona Fitch, 1851: _Telamona excelsa_. (Otu).
Telamona Fitch, 1851: _Telamona excelsa_. (Otu).
Helonica Ball, 1931 now Telamona Fitch, 1851: _Telamona excelsa_. (Otu).
Live specimen on Telamona Fitch, 1851: Telamona ampelopsidis, female. Front Royal, Warren Co., Virginia, USA; September 10, 2022. (Observation).

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (10)

  • Telamona Fitch, 1851a: 50.

    type species by subsequent designation Telamona fasciata Fitch, 1851 in Van Duzee, 1893b: 410

  • Telemona [sic] Fitch, 1851 in Brodie & White, 1883a: 59.
  • Talamona [sic] Fitch, 1851 (misspelling of Telamona Fitch, 1851) in Moore, 1950a: 254.
  • Helonica Ball, 1931 (subjective synonym of Telamona Fitch, 1851) in Wallace, 2015b: 252.

Nomenclature references (8)

  • Fitch, A. (1851a) Catalogue with references and descriptions of the insects collected and arranged for the State Cabinet of Natural History. Annual Report of the Regents of the University on the Condition of the State Cabinet of Natural History, and the Historical and Antiquarian Collection, 4, 43–69.
  • Brodie, W. & White, J.E. (1883a) Check list of insects of the Dominion of Canada. C. Blackett Robinson. Toronto, 67 pp.
  • Van Duzee, E.P. (1893b) Corrections and notes to the preceding catalogue. In Reprint of Fitch's Catalogue with references and descriptions of the insects collected and arranged for the State Cabinet of Natural History. Report of the New York State Museum of Natural History, 46, 410.
  • Goding, F.W. (1926e) Classification of the Membracidae of America. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 34, 295–317.
  • Severin, H.C. (1927a) A third report upon the Membracidae (treehoppers) of South Dakota. Proceedings of the South Dakota Academy of Science, 11, 33–49.
  • Ball, E.D. (1931f) A monographic revision of the treehoppers of the tribe Telamonini of North America. Entomologica Americana (New Series), 12, 1–69.
  • Moore, G.A. (1950a) Catalogue des Hémiptères de la Province de Québec. Nat. Canadien., 77, 233–271.
  • Wallace, M.S. (2015b) Taxonomic changes in the treehopper genera Helonica Ball, Telamona Fitch, and Palonica Ball (Hemiptera: Membracidae: Smiliinae: Telamonini). Zootaxa, 4007(2), 251–258.

Type

type species by subsequent designation of Telamona Fitch, 1851

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

after Telamones (Greek: Τελαμών), a synonym of Atlantes, European architectural sculpture; in allusion to the enormous backs of these insects

Image matrix

No descendants observations found

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1056
Species3105182
Subspecies40610