''Penthicodes'' 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 belonging to the family Fulgoridae, subfamily

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 bu ...

: found in South-East Asia. The genus name was formerly treated as feminine, but in 2022 it was revised to masculine in accordance with

ICZN The International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) is a widely accepted convention in zoology that rules the formal scientific naming of organisms treated as animals. It is also informally known as the ICZN Code, for its publisher, the Int ...

Article 30.1.4.4,ICZN Code
30.1.4.4. A compound genus-group name ending in the suffix ''-ites, -oides, -ides, -odes'', or ''-istes'' is to be treated as masculine unless its author, when establishing the name, stated that it had another gender or treated it as such by combining it with an adjectival species-group name in another gender form. changing the spelling of several species' names.Kawin Jiaranaisakul & Jérôme Constant (2022) New records of ''Penthicodes'' lanternfly species from Thailand and Malaysia and nomenclatural notes on the genus (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Fulgoridae). Bonn zoological Bulletin 71 (2): 87–97 ISSN 2190–73072022 DOI:10.20363/BZB-2022.71.2.087

Species

''Fulgoromorpha Lists On the WEB'' (FLOW) includes:FLOW: ''Penthicodes'' Blanchard, 1845
/ref> ;Subgenus ''Penthicodes (Ereosoma)'' Kirkaldy, 1906 * '' Penthicodes astraea'' (Stål, 1864) * '' Penthicodes atomaria'' (Weber, 1801) * '' Penthicodes bimaculatus'' (Schmidt, 1905) * '' Penthicodes caja'' (Walker, 1851) * '' Penthicodes celebicus'' Constant, 2010 * '' Penthicodes pulchellus'' (Guérin-Méneville, 1838) * '' Penthicodes quadrimaculatus'' Lallemand, 1963 * '' Penthicodes rugulosus'' (Stål, 1870) * '' Penthicodes variegatus'' (Guérin-Méneville, 1829) * '' Penthicodes warleti'' Constant, 2010 ;Subgenus ''Penthicodes (Penthicodes)'' Blanchard, 1845 * '' Penthicodes farinosus'' (Weber, 1801) * '' Penthicodes nicobaricus'' (Stål, 1869)

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* * {{Taxonbar, from=Q10623381 Hemiptera of Asia Auchenorrhyncha genera Aphaeninae