genus

Telamona Fitch, 1851

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.
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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.

Telamona fasciata Fitch, 1851 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

Ball, E.D. (1931f) A monographic revision of the treehoppers of the tribe Telamonini of North America. Entomologica Americana (New Series), 12, 1–69.
Brodie, W. & White, J.E. (1883a) Check list of insects of the Dominion of Canada. C. Blackett Robinson. Toronto, 67 pp.
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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.
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.