Pygospina

Pygospina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Infraorder:	Fulgoromorpha
Family:	Delphacidae
Subfamily:	Delphacinae
Genus:	Pygospina Caldwell in Caldwell & Martorell, 1951

Pygospina is a genus of delphacid planthoppers in the family Delphacidae. There are about five described species in Pygospina. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Species

These five species belong to the genus Pygospina:

• Pygospina aurantii (Crawford, 1914)
• Pygospina reducta Caldwell in Caldwell & Martorell, 1951
• Pygospina rezendensis (Muir, 1926)
• Pygospina spinata Caldwell in Caldwell & Martorell, 1951
• Pygospina spinigera (Fennah, 1945)

References

1. "Pygospina Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
2. "Pygospina". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
3. "Pygospina genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
4. Bartlett, C.R. (2012). "Planthoppers of North America" . Retrieved 2019-07-02.

Further reading

• Doud, C. W.; Wilson, S. W.; Tsai, J. H. (1997). "Descriptions of nymphs of the cat-tail feeding delphacid planthopper Pygospina spinata (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea)". The Florida Entomologist. 80 (4): 443–450. doi: 10.2307/3495608 . JSTOR   3495608.
• Beamer, R. H. (1951). "A new genus and two new species of Delphacine Fulgorids". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 44 (2): 198–200. doi:10.1093/aesa/44.2.198.
• Ding, Jinhua (2006). Homoptera Delphacidae. Fauna Sinica Insecta. 45. Science Press. ISBN   978-7-03-016876-4.
• Kennedy, Ashley C.; Bartlett, Charles R.; Wilson, Stephen W. (2012). "An annotated checklist of the delphacid planthoppers (Hemiptera: Delphacidae) of Florida with the description of three new species and the new genus, Meristopsis". The Florida Entomologist. 95 (2): 395–421. doi: 10.1653/024.095.0223 . JSTOR   23268562.