Kalidasa (bug)

Kalidasa is a genus of bugs in the tribe Aphaenini of the family Fulgoridae. There are four species in the genus, which are found in different parts of tropical Asia.[1]

Kalidasa
Kalidasa lanata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Infraorder: Fulgoromorpha
Superfamily: Fulgoroidea
Family: Fulgoridae
Subfamily: Aphaeninae
Genus: Kalidasa
Kirkaldy, 1900
Type species
Kalidasa sanguinalis
(Westwood, 1851)

Species

Four species are listed:[1]

  • Kalidasa lanata (Drury, 1773)
  • Kalidasa lui Wang & Huang, 1989
  • Kalidasa nigromaculata (Gray, 1832)
    • synonym Kalidasa paulinia (Signoret, 1862)
  • Kalidasa sanguinalis (Westwood, 1851)

Description

They have a slender and flexible stalk-like outgrowth arising from above the tip of the snout.[2]

References
  1. Hemiptera database
  2. Distant W. L. (1906). The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota. Volume 3. London: Taylor and Francis. pp. 212–213.
  • Media related to Kalidasa at Wikimedia Commons
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