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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 (unavailable or invalid, linked to Pisacha Distant, 1906) in Schumacher, 1915b: 139.
  • 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 (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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  • 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. (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.

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