Genus
Amarusa Walker, 1857
Descendants and synonyms
Nomenclature (6)
- Amarusa Walker, 1857b: 166.
type species by original monotypy Amarusa picea Walker, 1857
- Eoptyelus Jacobi, 1921a: 8.
type species by original designation Eoptyelus sordidus Jacobi, 1921
- Okiptyelus Matsumura, 1940 (subjective synonym of Amarusa Walker, 1857) in Liang, 1998: 240.
- Amarusa Walker, 1857 (classified as Ptyelinae Fowler, 1897) in Hamilton, 2013a: 204.
Nomenclature references (6)
- Hamilton, K.G.A. (1980d) Aphrophorinae of the Solomon Islands (Rhynchota: Homoptera: Cercopidae). Pacific Insects, 22(3-4), 361–379.
- Hamilton, K.G.A. (2013a) Revision of Neotropical aphrophorine spittlebugs, part 2: tribe Orthoraphini (Hemiptera, Cercopoidea). Zootaxa, 3710(3), 201–225. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3710.3.1
- Matsumura, S. (1940a) New species and genera of Cercopidae in Japan, Korea and Formosa with a list of the known species. Journal of the Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, 45(2), 35–82.
- Walker, F. (1857b) Catalogue of the homoperous insects collected at Sarawak, Borneo by Mr. A.R. Wallace, with descriptions of new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 1, 141–175 + pls. 1, 8.
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:
after Amarusa or Marusia, a city of Hyrcania, a region in the southeast of the Caspian Sea, part of modern-day Iran and Turkmenistan
Image matrix
No descendants observations found
Stats
| Taxon | Valid names | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Extant | Fossil | Invalid | Total |
| Genus | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| Species | 6 | 0 | 12 | 18 |