Haphsa

Haphsa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Family: Cicadidae
Subfamily: Cicadinae
Tribe: Dundubiini
Genus: Haphsa
Distant, 1905
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Haphsa is a genus of Asian cicadas in the tribe Dundubiini (subtribe Aolina); it was erected by William Lucas Distant in 1905. There appears to be disagreement about the placement of certain species; records of distribution are from India, China through to Indochina.

Species

The World Auchenorrhyncha Database includes:

  1. Haphsa apicoinfuscata Sanborn, 2013
  2. Haphsa conformis Distant, 1917
  3. Haphsa corta Lee, 2025
  4. Haphsa dianensis Chou, Lei, Li, Lu & Yao, 1997
  5. Haphsa durga (Distant, 1881)
  6. Haphsa fratercula Distant, 1917
  7. Haphsa karenensis Ollenbach, 1928
  8. Haphsa lueta Wang, Yang & Wei, 2015
  9. Haphsa nana Distant, 1913
  10. Haphsa nicomache (Walker, 1850)
    – type species (as Dundubia nicomache Walker, 1850) - Indian subcontinent
  11. Haphsa opercularis Distant, 1917 - Yunnan, Laos, Vietnam

The Global Biodiversity Information Facility may also include the species names:

now placed in restored genus Aola Distant, 1905
  1. Haphsa bindusara (Distant, 1881)
now placed in genus Changa Lee, 2016
  1. Haphsa jsguillotsi (Boulard, 2005)
  2. Haphsa sita (Distant, 1881)
now placed in Sinotympana
  1. Haphsa acutipetala Wang, Peng & Wei, 2021
  2. Haphsa caobangensis (Pham & Sanborn, 2019)
  3. Haphsa incomparabilis (Lee, 2009)
best placed in Sinosemia
  1. Haphsa shirakii (Matsumura, 1927)

References

  1. 1 2 3 Global Biodiversity Information Facility: Haphsa Distant, 1905 (retrieved 11 May 2025).
  2. 1 2 3 4 World Auchenorrhyncha Database: Genus Haphsa Distant, 1905 (retrieved 17 May 2025)
  3. ↑ Distant WL (1905) Rhynochotal notes. -- XXIX. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (Ser. 7), 15, 58–70.
  4. 1 2 Lee YJ (2025) A new species of Haphsa Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) from Northern Thailand, with a taxonomic review of Haphsa and its allied genera. Journal of Natural History, 59(13–16), 1049–1061. DOI
  5. ↑ World Auchenorrhyncha Database: genus Changa Lee, 2016