''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 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 ...

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

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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.

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