Pycna

Pycna
Pycna strix
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Family: Cicadidae
Subfamily: Cicadinae
Tribe: Platypleurini
Genus: Pycna
Amyot & Serville, 1843
Species

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

Species

The World Auchenorrhyncha Database 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; species from mainland Africa are now placed in Dyticopycna Sanborn, 2020.

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)
  3. ↑ Sanborn AF (2020) Redescription of the cicada genus Pycna Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843 (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadinae: Platypleurini) with the formation of two new genera, one new species, one revised species status and twenty-four new combinations. Zootaxa, 4722(2), 157-174. DOI