Pyrilla

Pyrilla
Pyrilla sp.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Infraorder: Fulgoromorpha
Family: Lophopidae
Subfamily: Lophopinae
Tribe: Lophopini
Genus: Pyrilla
Stål, 1859

Pyrilla[1] is a genus of bugs in the subfamily Lophopinae and tribe Lophopini.

Species are distributed in Asia: eastwards from Pakistan to Borneo.[2] Pyrilla perpusilla, also known as the 'sugarcane planthopper', is a significant pest of sugarcane.

Species

Fulgoromorpha Lists On the Web lists the following:[2]

  1. Pyrilla aberrans (Kirby, 1891)
  2. Pyrilla lycoides (Walker, 1862)
  3. Pyrilla perpusilla (Walker, 1851)
  4. Pyrilla protuberans Stål, 1859 – type species
  5. Pyrilla punjabensis Shakila, 1984
  6. Pyrilla rahimyarensis Shakila, 1984
  7. Pyrilla sinica Liang, 1997
  8. Pyrilla sumatrensis Baker, 1925

References

  1. ^ Stål C (1859) Novae quaedam Fulgorinorum formae speciesque insigniores. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift. Berlin 3: 313-327 [326].
  2. ^ a b Fulgoromorpha Lists On the Web (FLOW): Pyrilla Stål, 1859 (retrieved 11 December 2019)
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