''Penthicodes pulchellus'' is a species 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 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 ...

( Fulgoridae): found in southern India,

Indo-China Mainland Southeast Asia, also known as the Indochinese Peninsula or Indochina, is the continental portion of Southeast Asia. It lies east of the Indian subcontinent and south of Mainland China and is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the west an ...

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. ...

. It belongs to the subgenus ''Ereosoma'' Kirkaldy, 1906. 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 this species' name from ''pulchella'' to ''pulchellus''.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

References

Guérin-Méneville F. E. (1838) Crustacées, arachnides et insectes, In: Duperrey L. I. 1838 - Voyage autour du monde, exécuté par ordre du roi, sur la corvette de sa majesté, La Coquille, pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825, 2. p. 180-193. FLOW: Fulgoromorpha Lists On the WEB - ''Penthicodes (Ereosoma) pulchella'' Guérin-Méneville, 1838.
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FLOW: ''Penthicodes (Ereosoma)'' Kirkaldy, 1906
Hemiptera of Asia Aphaeninae {{Fulgoridae-stub