''Pagiphora'' is a genus of cicadas in the family
Cicadidae
Cicadidae, the true cicadas, is the largest family of cicadas, with more than 3,200 species worldwide. The oldest known definitive fossils are from the Paleocene, a nymph from the Cretaceous Burmese amber has been attributed to the family, but co ...
, found in the western
Palearctic
The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across all of Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa.
The realm consists of several bioregions: the Euro-Sibe ...
. There are about five described species in ''Pagiphora''.
[
''Pagiphora'' was formerly placed in the tribe ]Cicadettini
Cicadettini is a tribe of cicadas in the family Cicadidae. There are at least 110 genera and 520 described species in Cicadettini, found worldwide except for the Neotropics.
Selected Genera
* '' Adelia'' Moulds, 2012
* '' Amphipsalta'' Fleming, ...
, but is now the sole genus of the tribe Pagiphorini.[
]
Species
These five species belong to the genus ''Pagiphora'':[
* '' Pagiphora annulata'' (Brullé, 1832)
* '' Pagiphora aschei'' Kartal, 1978
* '' Pagiphora hauptosa'' Boulard, 1981
* '' Pagiphora maghrebensis'' Boulard, 1981
* '' Pagiphora yanni'' Boulard, 1992
]
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Cicadettinae
Cicadidae genera
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