Eopycna
Genus of cicadas
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Eopycna is a genus of Asian cicadas in the tribe Platypleurini, erected by Allen Sanborn in 2020;[1] he named it from the Greek: ἠώς (early, dawn) and the similar genus Pycna, where several species were placed before the revision.[2]
| Eopycna | |
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| Eopycna coelestia | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Auchenorrhyncha |
| Family: | Cicadidae |
| Subfamily: | Cicadinae |
| Tribe: | Platypleurini |
| Genus: | Eopycna Sanborn, 2020 |
Species distribution records include: Pakistan, northern India, Himalayas, Sri Lanka, China, Taiwan, Japan, Indochina, Malesia (not the Philippines) through to New Guinea.[2]
Species
The World Auchenorrhyncha Database[2] includes:
- Eopycna coelestia (Distant, 1904)
- Eopycna concinna (Boulard, 2005)
- Eopycna himalayana (Naruse, 1977)
- Eopycna indochinensis (Distant, 1913)
- Eopycna minor (Liu, 1940)
- Eopycna montana (Hayashi, 1978)
- Eopycna repanda (Linnaeus, 1758) - type species (as Cicada repanda Linnaeus)
- Eopycna verna (Hayashi, 1982)[3]
