genus
Pisacha Distant, 1906
Descendants and synonyms
Nomenclature (6)
- Pisacha Distant, 1906i: 391.
type species by original designation Pisacha naga Distant, 1906
- Soaemis Jacobi, 1915a: 311.
type species by original designation Soaemis encaustica Jacobi, 1915
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- Soaemis Schumacher, 1915 (unavailable or invalid, linked to Pisacha Distant, 1906)
- Soaemis Jacobi, 1915 (subjective synonym of Pisacha Distant, 1906) in Ishihara, 1965c: 207.
Type
Pisacha naga Distant, 1906 type species by original designation of Pisacha Distant, 1906
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:
after Pisacha kingdom, the territory of Pisachas who were a group of mountain dwellers lived in the mountains around the Kashmir Valley and mentioned in the epic "Mahabharata"
Nomenclature references (4)
- Distant, W.L. (1906i) Rhynchota. Heteroptera-Homoptera. Bingham, C. T. (ed.). The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Taylor and Francis, London. Vol. 3: i–xiv, 1–503.
- Ishihara, T. (1965c) Some species of Formosan Homoptera. Special Bulletin of Lepidopterological Society of Japan, 1, 201–221.
- Jacobi, A.F.V. (1915a) Kritische Bemerkungen über die Ricaniinae (Rhynchota Homoptera). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 1915(3), 299–314. [1916; Metcalf attributed this paper to 1916, but Schmumacher, when describing Pochazia sublimata in 1915 put a note that he recived the publication on July 1, 1915.]
- Schumacher, F. (1915b) "Homoptera." In H. Sauter's Formosa-Ausbeute. Supplementa Entomologica, 4, 108–142.
Stats
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| Rank | Extant | Fossil | Invalid | Total | |
| genus | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | |
| species | 7 | 0 | 2 | 9 | |