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Orosius (leafhopper)

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Suborder
  
Auchenorrhyncha

Superfamily
  
Membracoidea

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
True bugs

Class
  
Insecta

Infraorder
  
Cicadomorpha

Family
  
Cicadellidae

Rank
  
Genus

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Similar
  
Common brown lea, True bugs, Opsiini, Deltocephalinae, Circulifer

Orosius is a genus of leafhopper in the tribe Opsiini and the subfamily Deltocephalinae. The genus was revised by Ghauri in 1966. Species can be differentiated by the shape of the aedeagus.

Species

There are seven known species including:

  • Orosius albicinctus Distant: type species
  • Orosius canberrensis (Evans, 1938), Australia
  • Orosius lotophagorum (Kirkaldy, 1907), Australia
  • Orosius orientalis (Evans, 1938), the common brown leafhopper, Australia

    • References

    Orosius (leafhopper) Wikipedia
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