Kalidasa is a genus of planthoppers in the tribe Aphaenini of the family Fulgoridae. There are four species in the genus, which are found in different parts of tropical Asia.[1]
Kalidasa | |
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Kalidasa albiflos | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hemiptera |
Suborder: | Auchenorrhyncha |
Infraorder: | Fulgoromorpha |
Family: | Fulgoridae |
Subfamily: | Aphaeninae |
Tribe: | Aphaenini |
Genus: | Kalidasa Kirkaldy, 1900 |
Type species | |
Kalidasa sanguinalis (Westwood, 1851)
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Species
editFour species are listed:[1]
- Kalidasa albiflos (Drury, 1773)
- synonym Kalidasa lanata
- synonym Kalidasa dives
- synonym Kalidasa mythiliae
- Kalidasa nigromaculata (Gray, 1832)
- synonym Kalidasa paulinia (Signoret, 1862)
- synonym Kalidasa lui
- Kalidasa sanguinalis (Westwood, 1851)
Description
editThey have a slender and flexible stalk-like outgrowth arising from above the tip of the snout.[2]
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Nymph of a Kalidasa species
References
edit- ^ a b Hemiptera database
- ^ Distant W. L. (1906). The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota. Volume 3. London: Taylor and Francis. pp. 212–213.
External links
edit- Media related to Kalidasa at Wikimedia Commons