genus

Apia Distant, 1909

Apia Distant, 1909j: 170.
type species by original designation Apia lineolata Distant, 1909
Apia Distant, 1909 (classified as Menoscaina Melichar, 1915) in Emeljanov, 2013c: 722.

Apia lineolata Distant, 1909 type species by original designation of Apia Distant, 1909

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

after Apia, the capital and the largest city of Samoa which was ruled by Apis

Distant, W.L. (1909j) Rhynchota Malayana. Part II. Records of the Indian Museum, 3, 163–181.
Emeljanov, A.F. (2013c) On the subdivision of the family Lophopidae (Homoptera, Auchenorrhyncha: Fulgoroidea) on the subfamilies and tribes with description of two new tribes. [Разделение семейства Lophopidae (Homoptera, Auchenorrhyncha: Fulgoroidea) на подсемейства и трибы с описанием двух новых триб]. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 92(4), 720–723. [in Russian; translated into English in Entomological Review, Washington, 2014, 94(2), 208–210]