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DESUDABA SCYLLA

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LEPIDOPTERA JOURNAL

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Classification

Phylum Arthropoda

Class Insecta

Order Hemiptera

Suborder Auchenorrhyncha

Infraorder Fulgoromorpha

Family Fulgoridae

Subfamily Poiocerinae

Tribe Poiocerini

Genus Desudaba

Species Desudaba Scylla

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DESUDABA SCYLLA

Desudaba is a genus of bugs in the family Fulgoridae, tribe Poiocerini and subtribe Calyptoproctina Metcalf, 1938.

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 to their brilliant and varied coloration. Various genera and species (especially the genera Fulgora and Pyrops) are sometimes referred to as lanternflies or lanthorn flies, though they do not emit light.

The head of some species is produced into a hollow process (structure), resembling a snout, which is sometimes inflated and nearly as large as the body of the insect, sometimes elongated, narrow and apically upturned. It was believed, mainly on the authority of Maria Sibylla Merian, that this process, the so-called lantern, was luminous at night in the living insect. Carl Linnaeus adopted the statement without question and coined a number of specific names, such as laternaria, phosphorea and candelaria to illustrate the supposed fact, and thus propagated the myth.


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