| Kalidasa | |
|---|---|
| Kalidasa albiflos | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Auchenorrhyncha |
| Infraorder: | Fulgoromorpha |
| Family: | Fulgoridae |
| Subfamily: | Aphaeninae |
| Tribe: | Aphaenini |
| Genus: | Kalidasa Kirkaldy, 1900 |
| Type species | |
| Kalidasa sanguinalis (Westwood, 1851)
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Kalidasa is a genus of planthoppers in the tribe Aphaenini of the family Fulgoridae. There are five species in the genus, which are found in different parts of tropical Asia.
Species
Four species are listed in FLOW:
- Kalidasa albiflos (Drury, 1773)
- synonym Kalidasa lanata
- synonym Kalidasa dives
- Kalidasa lui Wang & Huang, 1989
- Kalidasa nigromaculata (Gray, 1832)
- synonym Kalidasa paulinia (Signoret, 1862)
- Kalidasa sanguinalis (Westwood, 1851)
- Kalidasa mythiliae Senthilkumar, 2022
Description
They have a slender and flexible stalk-like outgrowth arising from above the tip of the snout.
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Nymph of a Kalidasa species
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References
- ^ a b FLOW Hemiptera database
- ^ Distant W. L. (1906). The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota. Volume 3. London: Taylor and Francis. pp. 212–213.
External links
- Media related to Kalidasa at Wikimedia Commons
