Lycorma delicatula

Familia: Fulgoridae
Subfamilia: Aphaeninae
Tribus: Aphaenini
Genus: Lycorma
Species:

Lycorma delicatula (White, 1845)

Type locality: China, Nankin (= Jiangsu, Nanjing). Noted as "Canton" in Walker, 1851.

Typus: Syntypes? Holotype BMNH, legit G. Tradescant Lay

• Aphaena delicatula White, 1845: 37; Walker, 1851: 282.
• Lycorma delicatula (White, 1845); Stål, 1863: 234; Atkinson, 1885: 150 [Also e.g. Metcalf 1947: 164 [not seen]; Lallemand, 1963: 46. [not seen]; Mauchline & McKenna, 2019; Urban & Leach 2023]
• Lycorma delicatula delicatula (Walker, 1858); Distant, 1906 (Implicit).
• Lycorma delicatulum Matsumura, 1931: 1269.

Heterotypic:

• Aphaena operosa Walker, 1858: 46. (Junior subjective synonym of Aphaena delicatula White, 1845 in Stål, 1862: 485).
  • Type locality: China "North China".
    • Typus: [?] NHM (=BMHH) ("Mr. Fortune's collection")
• Lycorma delicatula var. operosa (Walker, 1858); Distant, 1906: 207
• Lycorma operosa (Walker, 1858); Oshanin, 1912: 114.

• Lycorma jole Stål, 1863: 234; (Junior subjective synonym of Aphaena delicatula White, 1845 in Nagai & Porion, 1996: 21.).
  • Type locality: "India Orientalis"
    • Typus: NHRM "Mus. Holm."
• Lycorma iole [sic] Stål, 1863 in Atkinson, 1885: 150 Distant, 1906: 207
• Lycorma delicatula jole Stål, 1863 in Lallemand, 1963: 46. [not seen]

• Atkinson, E.F.T. 1885. Notes on Indian Rhynchota, No. 4. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 54(3): 127–158. BHL Reference page. 
• Distant, W.L. 1906. Rhynchota, vol. III. (Heteroptera-Homoptera) in Bingham, C.T. (ed.) The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. London: Taylor & Francis. 503 pp. BHL. Reference page. 
• Lallemand, V. 1963. Révision des Fulgoridae (Homoptera). Deuxième partie. faunes asiatique et Australienne. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique (2 sér.) 75: 1–99. Reference page. 
• Matsumura, S. 1931. 6000 Illustrated Insects of Japan-Empire [日本昆蟲大圖鑑]. Tokyo: Tōkō Shoin. 1497 pp. NDL Digital Collections Reference page.  [See page 1269.]
• Nagai, S. & Porion, T. 1996. Fulgoridae 2. Catalogue illustré des faunes asiatique et australienne [= Illustrated catalogue of the Asiatic and Australian fauna]. Fédération Francaise des Sociétés de Sciences, Venette, 80 pp. Reference page. 
• Oshanin, B. 1912. Katalog der paläarktischen Hemipteren (Heteroptera, Homoptera-Auchenorhyncha und Psylloideae). 187 pp. Berlin: R. Friedländer & Sohn. (German) DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.13940 . Reference page. 
• Stål, C. 1862. Synonymiska och systematiska anteckningar öfver Hemiptera. Öfversigt af Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar 19: 479–504. BHL Reference page. 
• Stål, C. 1863. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Fulgoriden. Entomologische Zeitung 24: 230–251. BHL Reference page. 
• Walker, F. 1851. List of the specimens of homopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part II. London. pp. 261–636. BHL Reference page. 
• Walker, F. 1858. Supplement. List of the specimens of homopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. (Supplement). London. pp. 1–369. BHL Reference page. 
• White, A. 1845. Descriptions of a new genus and some new species of Homopterous Insects from the East in the Collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 15(95): 34–37. BHL DOI: 10.1080/037454809495244 Reference page.  [See page 37.]

• Mauchline N. & McKenna C. 2019. BS1847: Spotted lanternfly, Lycorma delicatula (White 1845) review: biology, ecology and pest management with reference to kiwifruit. PFR SPTS No. 17586. The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research. Archive Link
• Urban, J.M. & Leach, H. 2023. Biology and Management of the Spotted Lanternfly, Lycorma delicatula (Hemiptera: Fulgoridae), in the United States. Annual Review of Entomology 68(1): 151–167. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ento-120220-111140.
• Metcalf Z.P. 1947. General catalogue of the Hemiptera. Fascicle IV: Fulgoroidea, Part 9: Fulgoridae. North Carolina State College, Raleigh, NC, USA. [not seen, cited later by others]
• Du, Z.; Wu, Y.; Chen, Z. et al. 2021. Global phylogeography and invasion history of the spotted lanternfly revealed by mitochondrial phylogenomics. Evolutionary Applications, 14(4): 915–930. doi:10.1111/eva.13170.  PDF

• Dmitriev, D.A. et al. (2022 onward). Lycorma delicatula (White, 1845). World Auchenorrhyncha Database. TaxonPages. LINK (Accessed July 21, 2025)
• Bourgoin, T. Fulgoromorpha Lists On the Web (FLOW): Lycorma delicatula (White, 1845). Online. (Retrieved September 1, 2021)

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