| Scaralina marmorata | |
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| Scaralina marmorata, North Carolina | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Auchenorrhyncha |
| Infraorder: | Fulgoromorpha |
| Family: | Fulgoridae |
| Genus: | Scaralina |
| Species: | S. marmorata |
| Binomial name | |
| Scaralina marmorata (Spinola, 1839) | |
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Scaralina marmorata is a species of planthopper in the family Fulgoridae, found throughout the southeastern United States. It is one of four species (the others being Scaralina aethrinsula, Scaralina cristata, and Scaralina metcalfi) that were, for several decades, erroneously grouped together under a single name, Alphina glauca; this name is now treated as a synonym of S. marmorata.
Taxonomy
Historically, this species has been incorrectly associated with three other genera; the genus Calyptoproctus (which molecular DNA evidence suggests is not in the tribe Poiocerini), the genus Crepusia, a slightly more closely related genus from South America, and Alphina, a closely-related genus also from South America.
Biology
Scaralina marmorata is associated with oaks (Quercus spp.). It is the only species in the genus routinely found at elevations below 1000 meters.
Distribution
Scaralina marmorata is found from central Texas up to Oklahoma and across to Virginia, and all areas south and east of this, wherever oaks are found.
References
- ^ 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 (5443): 1–53. doi:10.11646/ZOOTAXA.5443.1.1.
- Urban, J.M. & Cryan, J.R. (2009) Entomologically famous, evolutionarily unexplored: The first phylogeny of the lanternfly family Fulgoridae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 50(3): 471–484.
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| Calyptoproctus marmoratus | |
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