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''Pyrops delessertii'' is a species of true bug in the family 
The hindwings are bluish green with a broad black border along the margin. The species is found in the Western Ghats and the Nilgiris.
FLOW database
delessertii Insects of India Insects described in 1840 {{Fulgoridae-stub
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 ...
, in the genus ''Pyrops
''Pyrops'' is a genus of planthoppers that occur primarily in southeast Asia, containing about 70 species. They are fairly large insects, with much of the length due to an elongated, upcurving, snout-like projection of the head. The wings are ge ...
'' which are sometimes called "lanternflies". This species is found in the Nilgiris and Western Ghats of southern India. The head and "snout" is greenish or brownish. The thorax has a reddish colour and there are three spots on the mesonotum.
The hindwings are bluish green with a broad black border along the margin. The species is found in the Western Ghats and the Nilgiris. Adolphe Delessert Adolphe François Delessert (15 September 1809 – 6 April 1869) was a French explorer and naturalist. A nephew of Baron Jules Paul Benjamin Delessert, Benjamin Delessert, he accompanied George Samuel Perrottet, Perrottet on a journey to India a ...
who discovered the species in the Nilgiris noted that it tended to be found along riverine forests and that it was hard to capture. It differs slightly in pattern and length of the "snout" from '' Pyrops maculatus'' and is sometimes treated as a subspecies of ''P. maculatus''.
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delessertii Insects of India Insects described in 1840 {{Fulgoridae-stub