Species
Allophleps linnavuorii Webb & Viraktamath, 2017
Descendants and synonyms
Nomenclature (4)
- Allophleps inspersa Viraktamath & Dash, 2001 non Bergroth, 1920 in Viraktamath & Dash, 2001a: 49.
- Allophleps inspersa Viraktamath & Dash, 2001 non Bergroth, 1920 (misapplication, linked to Allophleps inspersa Bergroth, 1920)
- Allophleps linnavuorii Webb & Viraktamath, 2017: 327.
Holotype; male; 571a854a-4b0e-4abb-a782-c466efd197dd; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Tanganyika, Lake Nyassa, 1,600' (488m), 9o30'S, 34o00'E, 28.viii.1959, Cambridge E. Africa Exped., B.M. 1960–1950
- Allophleps inspersa Viraktamath & Dash, 2001 non Bergroth, 1920 (unavailable, linked to Allophleps linnavuorii Webb & Viraktamath, 2017) in Webb & Viraktamath, 2017: 327.
Nomenclature references (3)
- Bergroth, E.E. (1920a) Hemiptera from British East Africa collected by Prof. E. Lönnberg. Arkiv för Zoologi. Utgifvet af K. Svenska Vetenskapsakademien, 12, 1–30.
- Viraktamath, C.A. & Dash, P.C. (2001a) Taxonomic position of the Indian species of grass feeding deltocephaline leafhoppers assigned to the genus Allophleps (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae). The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 98(1), 47–52.
- Webb, M.D. & Viraktamath, C.A. (2017) Nomenclatorial changes in the African leafhopper genus Allophleps (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae). Entomologica Americana, 122(3), 326–332. [2016]
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:
in honor of Råuno E. Linnavuori (1927–2017), a Finnish entomologist who specialized in Hemiptera
Stats
| Taxon | Valid names | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Extant | Fossil | Invalid | Total |
| Species | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |