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, linked to Pisacha Distant, 1906) in Schumacher, 1915b: 139.
Soaemis Jacobi, 1915 (subjective synonym of Pisacha Distant, 1906) in Ishihara, 1965c: 207.

Nomenclature references (5)

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.
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Schumacher, F. (1915a) Der gegenwärtige Stand unserer Kenntnis von der Homopteren-Fauna der Insel Formosa unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Sauter'schem Material. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 8, 73–134.
Schumacher, F. (1915b) "Homoptera." In H. Sauter's Formosa-Ausbeute. Supplementa Entomologica, 4, 108–142.

Type

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"

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
Taxon	Valid names
Rank	Extant	Fossil	Invalid	Total
genus	1	0	2	3
species	7	0	2	9