''Pisacha'' is a genus of
planthoppers
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 ...
in the
tribe
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Pisachini in the subfamily
Nogodininae, erected by
William Lucas Distant
William Lucas Distant (12 November 1845 Rotherhithe – 4 February 1922 Wanstead) was an English entomologist.
Biography Early years
Distant was born in Rotherhithe, the son of whaling captain Alexander Distantspecies:B.R. Subba Rao, Rao, B.R ...
in 1906.
[Distant WL (1906) ''The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma.'' 3: 503 pp. 91Lt. Col. C. T. Birgham.] Species have been recorded from South East Asia and Japan.
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Species
''Fulgoromorpha Lists on the Web''[Fulgoromorpha Lists On the Web (FLOW): ''Pisacha'' Distant 1906 (retrieved 8 March 2024)]
/ref> includes:
# '' Pisacha baculiformis''
# '' Pisacha balteiformis''
# '' Pisacha encaustica''
# '' Pisacha falcata''
# '' Pisacha kwangsiensis''
# '' Pisacha naga'' - type species
# '' Pisacha yinggensis''
References
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Auchenorrhyncha genera
Hemiptera of Asia
Nogodinidae