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Head on Alapus DeLong & Sleesman, 1929: Alapus fraternus, head, pronotum, and mesonotum, dorsally. (Observation).
Head on Alapus DeLong & Sleesman, 1929: Alapus fraternus, head, pronotum, and mesonotum, dorsally. (Observation).
Forewing on Alapus DeLong & Sleesman, 1929: Alapus fraternus, forewing. (Observation).

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (4)

  • Alapus DeLong & Sleesman, 1929a: 86.

    type species by original designation Deltocephalus fraternus Ball, 1911

  • Alapus DeLong & Sleesman, 1929 (classified as Deltocephalina Fieber, 1869) in Hamilton, 1975b: 487.
  • Alapus DeLong & Sleesman, 1929 (classified as Paralimnini Distant, 1908) in Kamitani, 1999a: 80.
  • Alapus DeLong & Sleesman, 1929 (classified as Paralimnusaria Distant, 1908) in Zahniser & Dietrich, 2013a: 137.

Nomenclature references (4)

  • DeLong, D.M. & Sleesman, J.P. (1929a) New genera and subgenera form the genus Deltocephalus. A study of the internal male genitalia of the American species and their bearing upon taxonomy. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 22, 81–114.
  • Hamilton, K.G.A. (1975b) Review of the tribal classification of the leafhopper subfamily Aphrodinae (Deltocephalinae of authors) of the Holarctic region (Rhynchota: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). The Canadian Entomologist, 107, 477–498.
  • Kamitani, S. (1999a) The phylogeny of the genera in the tribes Deltocephalini, Paralimnini, and their allies (Homoptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae). Esakia, 39, 65–108.
  • Zahniser, J.N. & Dietrich, C.H. (2013a) A review of the tribes of Deltocephalinae (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae). European Journal of Taxonomy, 45, 1–211. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2013.45

Type

type species by original designation of Alapus DeLong & Sleesman, 1929

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Latin: alapa (slap, smack)

Image matrix

No descendants observations found

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1001
Species70512