During the past decades, integer-order complex-valued neural networks have attracted great attention since they have been widely applied in in many fields of engineering technology. However, the investigation on fractional-order complex-valued neural networks, which are more appropriate to characterize the dynamical nature of neural networks, is rare. In this manuscript, we are to consider the stability and the existence of Hopf bifurcation of fractional-order complex-valued neural networks. By separating the coefficients and the activation functions into their real and imaginary parts and cho...