Punia (cicada)

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Punia
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Family: Cicadidae
Genus: Punia
Moulds, 2012
Type species
Pauropsalta minima
Golding & Froggatt, 1904
Species

5, see text.

Punia is a genus of cicadas in the family Cicadidae endemic to Australia. [1] Members of the genus are called grass pygmies. [2] There are currently five described species in Punia. They are found in Western Australia, the Northern Territory and Queensland. [3] The genus was considered to be a monotypic genus only containing P. minima until the 2020 description of four congeners.

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Species

Punia contains five species:

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References

  1. Owen, Christopher L.; Marshall, David C.; Hill, Kathy B. R.; Simon, Chris (2017-01-25). "How the Aridification of Australia Structured the Biogeography and Influenced the Diversification of a Large Lineage of Australian Cicadas". Systematic Biology. 66 (4): 569–589. doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syw078 . ISSN   1063-5157. PMID   28123112.
  2. "Genus Punia (Grass Pygmy)". dr-pop.net. Retrieved 2021-01-17.
  3. Moulds, M. S. (2020-10-09). "A revision of the Australian cicada genus Punia Moulds, 2012 (Cicadidae: Cicadettinae: Cicadettini) with the description of four new species". Zootaxa. 4860 (1): 101–115. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4860.1.5 . ISSN   1175-5334.

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