Alphina

Genus of planthoppers

Alphina

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Hemiptera
Suborder:  | Auchenorrhyncha
Infraorder:  | Fulgoromorpha
Family:  | Fulgoridae
Subfamily:  | Poiocerinae
Tribe:  | Poiocerini
Genus:  | Alphina
Stål, 1863
Type species
Alphina nigrosignata

Stål, 1863

Alphina is a genus of planthoppers in the family Fulgoridae occurring in South America.[1]

## Species

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* Alphina nigrosignata Stål, 1863
* Alphina fryi Distant, 1906

### Formerly included

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* Alphina glauca (Metcalf, 1923); a synonym of Scaralina marmorata[2]

## References

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1. ^ Genus Alphina Stal, 1863
2. ^ Yanega, D., Goemans, G., Van Dam M., Gómez-Marco, F., Hoddle, M. (2024) Description of a new genus of North and Central American planthoppers (Hemiptera: Fulgoridae) with fourteen new species. Zootaxa 5443: 1-53. DOI: 10.11646/ZOOTAXA.5443.1.1

Taxon identifiers

Alphina|

* Wikidata: Q10406730
* Wikispecies: Alphina
* BOLD: 377472
* BugGuide: 82526
* CoL: SW8
* EoL: 31424
* GBIF: 2065489
* iNaturalist: 471383
* IRMNG: 1271448
* NCBI: 548359
* Open Tree of Life: 374561