Pisacha
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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.Distant WL (1906) The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. 3: 503 pp. [391] Lt. Col. C. T. Birgham. Species have been recorded from South East Asia and Japan.
Species
Fulgoromorpha Lists on the Web[https://flow.hemiptera-databases.org/flow/?page=explorer&db=flow&lang=en&card=taxon&rank=genus&id=19702 Fulgoromorpha Lists On the Web (FLOW): Pisacha Distant 1906 (retrieved 8 March 2024)] includes:
- Pisacha baculiformis {{Au|Meng, Wang & Wang, 2014}}
- Pisacha balteiformis {{Au|Meng, Wang & Wang, 2014}}
- Pisacha encaustica {{Au|(Jacobi, 1916)}}
- Pisacha falcata {{Au|Meng, Wang & Wang, 2014}}
- Pisacha kwangsiensis {{Au|Chou & Lu, 1977}}
- Pisacha naga {{Au|Distant, 1906}} - type species
- Pisacha yinggensis {{Au|Meng, Wang & Wang, 2014}}
References
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