''Lystra pulverulenta'' is a species 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 ...
in the
genus ''
Lystra
Lystra ( grc, Λύστρα) was a city in central Anatolia, now part of present-day Turkey. It is mentioned six times in the New Testament. Lystra was visited several times by Paul the Apostle, along with Barnabas or Silas. There Paul met a young ...
''. It is found in South America.
Identification
With a waxed head and thorax, it has an elaborate long "tail of wax". The basal 2/3rds of the forewing is whole waxed, by which it can be separated from ''
L. lanata''. The remainder of the forewing is black.
Distribution
The species is found in
Brazil,
Suriname
Suriname (; srn, Sranankondre or ), officially the Republic of Suriname ( nl, Republiek Suriname , srn, Ripolik fu Sranan), is a country on the northeastern Atlantic coast of South America. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north ...
, and
French Guinea.
[https://flow.hemiptera-databases.org/flow/?page=explorer&db=flow&lang=en&card=species&id=9099]
References
Poiocerinae
Hemiptera of South America
Insects described in 1791
Taxa named by Guillaume-Antoine Olivier
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