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Pyrilla

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Pyrilla
Pyrilla sp.
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Domain: Eukaryota
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

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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, 1859type species
  5. Pyrilla punjabensis Shakila, 1984
  6. Pyrilla rahimyarensis Shakila, 1984
  7. Pyrilla sinica Liang, 1997
  8. Pyrilla sumatrensis Baker, 1925

References

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  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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