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Pisacha

Pisacha is a genus of planthoppers in the tribe Pisachini in the subfamily Nogodininae, erected by William Lucas Distant in 1906. Species have been recorded from South East Asia and Japan.

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Pisacha
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Infraorder: Fulgoromorpha
Family: Nogodinidae
Subfamily: Nogodininae
Tribe: Pisachini
Genus: Pisacha
Distant, 1906
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Pisacha is a genus of planthoppers in the tribe Pisachini in the subfamily Nogodininae, erected by William Lucas Distant in 1906.1 Species have been recorded from South East Asia and Japan.2

Species

Fulgoromorpha Lists on the Web2 includes:

  1. Pisacha baculiformis Meng, Wang & Wang, 2014
  2. Pisacha balteiformis Meng, Wang & Wang, 2014
  3. Pisacha encaustica (Jacobi, 1916)
  4. Pisacha falcata Meng, Wang & Wang, 2014
  5. Pisacha kwangsiensis Chou & Lu, 1977
  6. Pisacha naga Distant, 1906type species
  7. Pisacha yinggensis Meng, Wang & Wang, 2014
References

References

  1. Distant WL (1906) The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. 3: 503 pp. [391] Lt. Col. C. T. Birgham.
  2. Fulgoromorpha Lists On the Web (FLOW): Pisacha Distant 1906 (retrieved 8 March 2024)
External links
  • Data related to Pisacha at Wikispecies