forewing of lectotype of Alara dux (click on image to enlarge it)
Alara dux, lectotype (click on image to enlarge it)
Author: Hillery Warner, The Natural History Museum, London, U.K., Entomology Department

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Fulgoroidea 

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Paraneoptera
Superordo: Condylognatha
Ordo: Hemiptera
Subordo: Auchenorrhyncha
Infraorder: Fulgoromorpha
Superfamilia: Fulgoroidea

Familia: Derbidae
Subfamilia: Otiocerinae
Tribus: Rhotanini
Genus: Alara
Species: Alara dux

Name

Alara dux Distant, 1911

Type locality: Maskeliya, Sri Lanka (Ceylon)

Lectotype: British Museum of Natural History, London, U.K.

References

  • Distant, W.L. 1911: Description of new genera and species of oriental Homoptera. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 8(8): 643.
  • Zelazny, B.; Webb, M.D. 2011: Revision of the planthopper tribe Rhotanini (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Derbidae). Zootaxa, 3071: 1–307. Preview
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