''Aracynthus'' is a genus of

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s in the family

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, subfamily

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. Species are distributed in

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, primarily

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.FLOW: genus ''Aracynthus''
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Species

* '' Aracynthus fulmineus'' Nast, 1950 * '' Aracynthus loicmatilei'' Bourgoin & Soulier-Perkins, 2001 * ''

Aracynthus sanguineus Aracynthus () was a range of mountains in Aetolia, the exact position of which is uncertain. It was said to run in a south-easterly direction from the Achelous River to the Evenos, and separating the lower plain of Aetolia near the sea from the up ...

'' (Olivier, 1791)

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q10416655 Hemiptera of South America Auchenorrhyncha genera Poiocerinae