Amarusa

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Paraneoptera
Superordo: Condylognatha
Ordo: Hemiptera
Subordo: Auchenorrhyncha
Infraordo: Cicadomorpha
Superfamilia: Cercopoidea

Familia: Aphrophoridae
Subfamilia: Aphrophorinae
Tribus: Ptyelini
Genus: Amarusa
Synonyms (2): Eoptyelus – Okiptyelus

Species (5): A. australis – A. elongata – A. picea – A. sordida – A. subnigricans
Name

Amarusa Walker, 1857
Type species: Amarusa picea Walker, 1857
Fixation: monotypy

References
Primary references

Walker, F. 1857: Catalogue of the Homopterous insects collected at Sarawak, Borneo, by Mr. A.R. Wallace, with descriptions of new species. Journal of the proceedings of the Linnean Society. Zoology, 1: 141–175. BHL [first availability, see p. 166]

Links

Australian Faunal Directory
Catalogue of Life: 2012 Annual Checklist
ION
Nomenclator Zoologicus