Pycna
| Pycna | |
|---|---|
| Pycna strix | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Auchenorrhyncha |
| Family: | Cicadidae |
| Subfamily: | Cicadinae |
| Tribe: | Platypleurini |
| Genus: | Amyot & Serville, 1843[1] |
| Species | |
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Pycna is a genus of cicadas in the tribe Platypleurini, from Madagascar.[2]
Species
The World Auchenorrhyncha Database[2] includes:
- Pycna ambrensis Boulard, 2022
- Pycna angusta (Butler, 1882)
- Pycna gigas (Distant, 1881)
- Pycna itremensis Boulard, 2008
- Pycna madagascariensis (Distant, 1879)
- Pycna roussettalna Boulard, 2022
- Pycna rudis (Karsch, 1890)
- Pycna strix Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843 - type species
Note at least three Asian species, previously placed here, are now in genus Eopycna; species from mainland Africa are now placed in Dyticopycna Sanborn, 2020.[3]
References
- ^ Amyot, C.J.-B. & Audinet-Serville, J.G. (1843) Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Hémiptères. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret. Paris, lxxvi + 676 pp. + 12 pls.
- ^ a b World Auchenorrhyncha Database: genus Pycna Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843 (retrieved 11 June 2025)
- ^ Sanborn AF (2020) Redescription of the cicada genus Pycna Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843 (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadinae: Platypleurini) with the formation of two new genera, one new species, one revised species status and twenty-four new combinations. Zootaxa, 4722(2), 157-174. DOI
External links
- Media related to Pycna at Wikimedia Commons