Spotted lanternfly
Taxonomy and discovery
!Spotted lanternfly showing underwing
Taxonomy and discovery
Lycorma delicatula is a species in the genus Lycorma, in the planthopper family) Fulgoridae, subfamily Aphaeninae. Species within this genus are found in Asia. Taxonomic) classification places three other species (L. imperialis (White, 1846), L. meliae Kato, 1929, and L. punicea (Hope, 1843) as closely related to the spotted lanternfly.
Taxonomy and discovery
In 1863, the species was reclassified as Lycorma delicatula by Carl Stål when that genus was first defined. In the same work, he also newly described Lycorma jole Stål, 1863 from "India Orientalis", noting differential aspects such as green-olivaceous forewings and being slightly larger (as translated in Distant, 1906). Another, originally Aphaena operosa Walker, 1858 from "North China" had been described several years earlier, for example reddish-brown "testaceous" or "lurid" forewings but had already been revised as a junior synonym in an earlier work by Stål, 1862.
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