Paurocephala


Paurocephala is a genus of African, Oriental and Australian plant lice belonging to the Liviinae ; the genus was erected by David Crawford in 1913.
Mifsud and Burckhardt's review provides information on the distribution of species and their host plants: which include species in the families:
Paurocephala is now described as an "Old World genus with 9 Afrotropical and 42 Indo-Australian described species". Four species from the Americas, previously placed here, were not considered to be congeneric with the Old World species and have been transferred to the closely related genus Diclidophlebia. The 2002 review included the following:
  1. Paurocephala abutili - Kenya
  2. Paurocephala ambigua - Sulawesi
  3. Paurocephala artocarpae - Philippines, Malesia
  4. Paurocephala bifasciata - China, Taiwan, Japan and Vietnam
  5. Paurocephala boehmeriae - China
  6. Paurocephala boxi - Ghana
  7. Paurocephala brendelli - Peninsular Malaysia
  8. Paurocephala brevicephala - Philippines and Sarawak
  9. Paurocephala calcarata - Fiji Islands
  10. Paurocephala chonchaiensis - China and Japan
  11. Paurocephala curvata - Papua New Guinea and Indonesia
  12. Paurocephala dayak - Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei and Singapore
  13. Paurocephala distincta - India and Sri Lanka
  14. Paurocephala elegans - Indonesia
  15. Paurocephala gossypii - Zaire, Sudan and Malawi
  16. Paurocephala hollisi - Tanzania
  17. Paurocephala insolita - Angola
  18. Paurocephala javanica - Indonesia
  19. Paurocephala kleinhojiae - Philippines and Taiwan
  20. Paurocephala lienhardi - Malaysia
  21. Paurocephala Iii - Indonesia
  22. Paurocephala longiantennata - Papua New Guinea
  23. Paurocephala lucida - Ethiopia
  24. Paurocephala macrochaetis - Indonesia
  25. Paurocephala maculipennis - Philippines including Palawan
  26. Paurocephala marginata - Indonesia
  27. Paurocephala martini - Singapore
  28. Paurocephala mathuri - India
  29. Paurocephala medleri - Nigeria
  30. Paurocephala minuta - Philippines
  31. Paurocephala muiri - Indonesia
  32. Paurocephala muta - India
  33. Paurocephala oceanica - Andaman Islands
  34. Paurocephala palawanensis - Philippines
  35. Paurocephala papuana - Papua New Guinea
  36. Paurocephala phalaki - India
  37. Paurocephala polaszeki - Bangladesh
  38. Paurocephala psylloptera - West Malesia including Philippines
  39. Paurocephala pterospermi - Palawan and Sabah
  40. Paurocephala robusta - Philippines
  41. Paurocephala russellae - India
  42. Paurocephala sauteri - China and Taiwan
  43. Paurocephala setifera - Philippines
  44. Paurocephala similis - Indonesia
  45. Paurocephala sinuata - Ghana and Nigeria
  46. Paurocephala stephaniella - Indonesia
  47. Paurocephala stigmaticalis - Malaysia
  48. Paurocephala sulawesiana - Indonesia
  49. Paurocephala trematos - Taiwan, Japan, Thailand, China and Malaysia
  50. Paurocephala urenae - Zaire
  51. Paurocephala wilderi - American Samoa