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''Alphina'' is a genus of planthoppers in the family
Fulgoridae The family Fulgoridae is a large group of hemipteran insects, especially abundant and diverse in the tropics, containing over 125 genera worldwide. They are mostly of moderate to large size, many with a superficial resemblance to Lepidoptera due t ...
occurring in
South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It can also be described as the southern Subregion#Americas, subregion o ...
.Genus ''Alphina'' Stal, 1863
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Species

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


Formerly included

* ''Alphina glauca'' (Metcalf, 1923); a synonym of '' Scaralina marmorata''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


References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q10406730 Hemiptera of South America Auchenorrhyncha genera Poiocerinae Taxa named by Carl Stål