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Habitus, dorsal view on Auranticopona laetisigna (Walker, 1857): Habitus, dorsal view. (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view on Auranticopona laetisigna (Walker, 1857): Habitus, dorsal view. (Observation).
Pygofer, lateral view on Auranticopona laetisigna (Walker, 1857): Pygofer, lateral view. (Observation).
Subgenital plate, ventral view on Auranticopona laetisigna (Walker, 1857): Subgenital plate, dorsal view. (Observation).
Stylus on Auranticopona laetisigna (Walker, 1857): Stylus, ventral view. (Observation).
Aedeagus, lateral view on Auranticopona laetisigna (Walker, 1857): Aedeagus, lateral view. (Observation).
Aedeagus, ventral view on Auranticopona laetisigna (Walker, 1857): Aedeagus, ventral view. (Observation).
Connective on Auranticopona laetisigna (Walker, 1857): Connective, ventral view. (Observation).

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (5)

  • Bythoscopus laetisigna Walker, 1857b: 174.

    Lectotype; male; NHMUK 013589075; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Malaysia: Sarawak

  • Dabrescus [sic] laetisigna (Walker, 1857) in Distant, 1908f: 146.
  • Roxasella laetisigna (Walker, 1857) in Zhang & Webb, 1996a: 20.
  • Auranticopona laetisigna (Walker, 1857) in Lu, Dietrich, Webb & Zhang, 2025: 32.

Nomenclature references (5)

  • Distant, W.L. (1908f) Rhynchota Malayana. Part 1. Records of the Indian Museum, 2, 127–151.
  • Distant, W.L. (1908g) Rhynchota. IV. Homoptera and appendix (Pt.). In The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. London: Taylor & Francis. pp. 1–419. [XV + 501 pp.]
  • Lu, L., Dietrich, C.H., Webb, M.D. & Zhang, Y.-L. (2025) Revision of the oriental Roxasella leafhopper group: phylogeny, morphological evolution, biogeography, and description of 14 new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 204(3), 1–44. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf040
  • 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.
  • Zhang, Y.-L. & Webb, M.D. (1996a) A revised classification of the Asian and Pacific selenocephaline leafhoppers (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology, 65(1), 1–103.
Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Latin: white mark

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Species1045