Pycna

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Pycna
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Pycna strix
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Family: Cicadidae
Subfamily: Cicadinae
Tribe: Platypleurini
Genus: Pycna
Amyot & Serville, 1843 [1]
Species

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Pycna is a genus of cicadas in the tribe Platypleurini, from Madagascar. [2]

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Species

The World Auchenorrhyncha Database [2] includes:

  1. Pycna ambrensis Boulard, 2022
  2. Pycna angusta (Butler, 1882)
  3. Pycna gigas (Distant, 1881)
  4. Pycna itremensis Boulard, 2008
  5. Pycna madagascariensis (Distant, 1879)
  6. Pycna roussettalna Boulard, 2022
  7. Pycna rudis (Karsch, 1890)
  8. Pycna strix Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843 - type species

Note at least three Asian species, previously placed here, are now in genus Eopycna ; from Africa:

References

  1. ↑ Amyot, C.J.-B. & Audinet-Serville, J.G. (1843) Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Hémiptères. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret. Paris, lxxvi + 676 pp. + 12 pls.
  2. 1 2 World Auchenorrhyncha Database: genus Pycna Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843 (retrieved 11 June 2025)
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