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Acus (planthopper)

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Acus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Infraorder: Fulgoromorpha
Family: Achilidae
Genus: Acus

Acus is a genus of achilid planthoppers in the family Achilidae. There is at least one described species in Acus, A. acutulus.[1][2] Since the name Acus Gray, 1847 had already been used for a genus of sea snails, it was proposed in 2020 to rename the planthopper genus as Neoacus.[3]

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References

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  1. ^ "Browse Acus". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
  2. ^ "Acus". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
  3. ^ Dmitriev, Dmitry A. (2020). "Nomenclatural changes in the suborders Auchenorrhyncha (Hemiptera) and Paleorrhyncha (Palaeohemiptera)". Zootaxa. 4881 (1): 25–53 [40]. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4881.1.2.

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