''Egregia'' 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 family
Fulgoridae
The family Fulgoridae is a large group of hemipteran insects, especially abundant and diverse in the tropics, containing over 125 genera worldwide. They are mostly of moderate to large size, many with a superficial resemblance to Lepidoptera due t ...
, subfamily
Aphaeninae
The subfamily Aphaeninae is a group of hemipteran insects, especially abundant and diverse in the tropics, in the family Fulgoridae, or "lanternflies".
The future of the Aphaeninae as a subfamily is unclear since the taxa assigned to it do not f ...
. Species are distributed in
Malesia
Malesia is a biogeographical region straddling the Equator and the boundaries of the Indomalayan and Australasian realms. It is a phytogeographical floristic region in the Paleotropical kingdom. It was first recognized as a distinct region ...
.
[FLOW: genus ''Egregia'']
/ref> , the number of species increased to 24.
Species
* '' Egregia brevirostris'' (Lallemand, 1959), distributed across north, east, and central Borneo
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Island. The prototypical type-species of the genus.
* '' Egregia laprincesse'' (Constant, 2014), found in Sumatra
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.Philippines
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.
References
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Insects of Indonesia
Auchenorrhyncha genera
Aphaeninae