Biology:Eopycna

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Eopycna is a genus of Asian cicadas in the tribe Platypleurini, erected by Allen Sanborn in 2020;[1] he named it from the Greek: ἠώς (early, dawn) and the similar genus Pycna, where several species were placed before the revision.[2]

Species distribution records include: Pakistan, northern India, Himalayas, Sri Lanka, China, Taiwan, Japan, Indochina, Malesia (not the Philippines) through to New Guinea.[2]

Species

The World Auchenorrhyncha Database[2] includes:

  1. Eopycna coelestia (Distant, 1904)
  2. Eopycna concinna (Boulard, 2005)
  3. Eopycna himalayana (Naruse, 1977)
  4. Eopycna indochinensis (Distant, 1913)
  5. Eopycna minor (Liu, 1940)
  6. Eopycna montana (Hayashi, 1978)
  7. Eopycna repanda (Linnaeus, 1758) - type species (as Cicada repanda Linnaeus)
  8. Eopycna verna (Hayashi, 1982)[3]

References

  1. Sanborn AF (2020) Redescription of the cicada genus Pycna Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843 (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadinae: Platypleurini) with the formation of two new genera, one new species, one revised species status and twenty-four new combinations. Zootaxa, 4722(2), 157–174. DOI
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 World Auchenorrhyncha Database: genus Eopycna Sanborn, 2020 (retrieved 10 June 2025)
  3. M. Hayashi (1982). "A new species of the genus Pycna from the Himalayas". Pacific Insects 24 (1): 78–83. http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pi/pdf/24(1)-78.pdf. 

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