Pyrops spinolae

Pyrops spinolae[3] is a species of planthopper sometimes referred-to as the dark-horned lantern-fly (Vietnamese: ve sầu đầu đen). The species is named after Maximilian Spinola, the authority for the genus.

Pyrops spinolae
Specimen in Cat Tien National Park
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Infraorder: Fulgoromorpha
Family: Fulgoridae
Genus: Pyrops
Species:
P. spinolae
Binomial name
Pyrops spinolae
(Westwood, 1842)
Synonyms
  • Hotinus spinolae Walker, 1851[1]
  • Laternaria spinolae Schaum, 1850
  • Fulgora spinolae Westwood, 1842[2]
  • Hotinus nigrirostris Walker, 1858

This bug is found from India to Indochina.

Subspecies

There are two subspecies:

  • Pyrops spinolae condorinus (Lallemand, 1960)
  • Pyrops spinolae spinolae (Westwood, 1842)

References
  1. Walker F. (1851) List of the specimens of Homopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum, 2: 261-636.
  2. Westwood J. O. (1842) Insectorum novorum centuria, auctore, Annals and Magazine of Natural History. London, 9: 118-119.
  3. FLOW: Pyrops spinolae (Westwood, 1842) retrieved 12 April 2019
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