Achilus is the type genusFLOW: Achilus Kirby, 1818 [type genus] (retrieved 22 January 2022) of planthoppers of the family Achilidae. This may be a monotypic genus containing the type species Achilus flammeus.Kirby, 1818: which is the "red fingernail bug" and found in Australia.GBIF: Achilus flammeus Kirby, 1818 The placement of A. cixioides Spinola from Chile, is uncertain,NSW GovernmentAchilus Kirby. but it may belong in Mnemosyne Stål, 1866 (Cixiinae}. The genus described by William Kirby in 1819.Kirby W (1819) A description of several new species of insects collected in New Holland by Robert Brown, Esq. F.R.S. Lib. Linn. Soc. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 12(2): 454-482.
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