''Aracynthus'' is a genus of
planthopper
A planthopper is any insect in the infraorder Fulgoromorpha, in the suborder Auchenorrhyncha, a group exceeding 12,500 described species worldwide. The name comes from their remarkable resemblance to leaves and other plants of their environment ...
s in the family
Fulgoridae
The family Fulgoridae is a large group of hemipteran insects, especially abundant and diverse in the tropics, containing over 125 genera worldwide. They are mostly of moderate to large size, many with a superficial resemblance to Lepidoptera due t ...
, subfamily
Poiocerinae
The subfamily Poiocerinae include Hemipteran insects in the family Fulgoridae, found especially in the tropics.
Tribes and genera
The ''Fulgoromorpha Lists On the Web'' (FLOW) includes four tribes:
Diloburini
Auth. Metcalf, 1938 (central & ...
. Species are distributed in
South America
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, primarily
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
.
[FLOW: genus ''Aracynthus'']
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Species
* '' Aracynthus fulmineus'' Nast, 1950
* '' Aracynthus loicmatilei'' Bourgoin & Soulier-Perkins, 2001
* '' Aracynthus sanguineus'' (Olivier, 1791)
References
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Auchenorrhyncha genera
Poiocerinae