Kalidasa (bug)

Kalidasa
	Kalidasa lanata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Clade:	Euarthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Family:	Fulgoridae
Subfamily:	Aphaeninae
Genus:	Kalidasa; Kirkaldy, 1900
Type species
	Kalidasa sanguinalis; (Westwood, 1851)
Species
	Kalidasa lanata (Drury, 1773); Kalidasa lui Wang & Huang, 1989; Kalidasa nigromaculata (Gray, 1832); Kalidasa paulinia (Signoret, 1862); Kalidasa sanguinalis (Westwood, 1851);

Kalidasa is a genus of bugs in the tribe Aphaenini of the family Fulgoridae. There are six species in the genus, which are found in different parts of tropical Asia. They have a slender and flexible stalk-like outgrowth arising from above the tip of the snout.^[1]

Kalidasa lanata
Nymph of a Kalidasa species

References

↑ Distant W. L. (1906). The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota. Volume 3. London: Taylor and Francis. pp. 212–213.

External links

Hemiptera database

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[1] Distant W. L. (1906). The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota. Volume 3. London: Taylor and Francis. pp. 212–213.