genus
Melanesiana Delorme, 2017
Descendants and synonyms
Nomenclature (3)
- Melanesiana Delorme, 2017a: 116.
type species by original designation Melanesiana kataouii Delorme, 2017
- Melanesinana [sic] Delorme, 2017a: 116.
- Melanesinana [sic] Delorme, 2017 (misspelling of Melanesiana Delorme, 2017) in Delorme, 2017a: 116.
Type
Melanesiana kataouii Delorme, 2017 type species by original designation of Melanesiana Delorme, 2017
Image matrix
No descendants observations found
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:
from Melanesia Islands (Oceania), from Greek: μέλας (dark) + νῆσος (island) + -ana (related to)
Nomenclature references (1)
- Delorme, Q. (2017a) Description of four new genera and five new species of cicadas from New Caledonia (Insecta: Hemiptera, Cicadoidea, Cicadidae). Zootaxa, 4243(1), 97–124.
Stats
| Taxon | Valid names | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Extant | Fossil | Invalid | Total |
| genus | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| species | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |