''Aphaena''
is a genus of
planthopper
A planthopper is any insect in the infraorder Fulgoromorpha, in the suborder Auchenorrhyncha, a group exceeding 12,500 described species worldwide. The name comes from their remarkable resemblance to leaves and other plants of their environment ...
s in the sub-family
Aphaeninae
The subfamily Aphaeninae is a group of hemipteran insects, especially abundant and diverse in the tropics. They belong to the Fulgoridae (fulgorids), though they are not among the better-known members of that family that are called "lantern bugs" ...
of
Fulgoridae. Species are distributed from eastern India,
Indo-China, China and
Malesia
Malesia is a biogeographical region straddling the Equator and the boundaries of the Indomalayan and Australasian realms, and also a phytogeographical floristic region in the Paleotropical Kingdom. It has been given different definitions. The ...
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Species
''Fulgoromorpha Lists on the Web'' lists:[Fulgoromorpha Lists On the Web (FLOW): ''Aphaena'' Guérin-Méneville, 1834 (retrieved 5 January 2021)]
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;subgenus ''Aphaena''
* '' Aphaena amorifera'' Schmidt, 1924
* '' Aphaena aurantia'' (Hope, 1840)
* '' Aphaena chionaema'' Butler, 1882
* '' Aphaena decolora'' (Chou & Wang, 1984)
* '' Aphaena discolor'' Guérin-Méneville, 1834 - type species
* '' Aphaena dissimilis'' Distant, 1906
* '' Aphaena murei'' Nagai & Porion, 1996
* '' Aphaena najas'' Schmidt, 1906
* '' Aphaena satrapa'' Gerstaecker, 1895
* '' Aphaena submaculata'' (Duncan, 1843)
** ''A. submaculata burmanica'' Distant, 1906
** ''A. submaculata consanguinea'' (Distant, 1906) (synonym ''Aphaena relata'')
** ''A. submaculata resima'' (Stål, 1855)
;subgenus ''Callidepsa''
* '' Aphaena amabilis'' (Hope, 1843)
* '' Aphaena cornuta'' (Fabricius, 1803)
* '' Aphaena hainanensis'' Wang, 1995
;Extinct species
* †'' Aphaena atava'' Scudder, 1877
* †'' Aphaena lithoecia'' Zhang, 1989
Gallery
Aphaena nigrotibiata.tif, ''Aphaena discolor''
Aphaena dissimilis TPopp.jpg, ''Aphaena dissimilis''
Aphaena najas.jpg, ''Aphaena najas''
Aphaena submaculata.jpg, ''Aphaena submaculata''
References
External links
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Auchenorrhyncha genera
Aphaeninae