Oryxa

Oryxa is a genus of planthoppers in the hemipteran family Flatidae. They live on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra, and in Malaysia.

Oryxa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Auchenorrhyncha
Infraorder:	Fulgoromorpha
Family:	Flatidae
Tribe:	Flatini
Genus:	Oryxa Melichar, 1902
Type species
Oryxa truncata Melichar, 1902 (= Oryxa melichari Kirkcaldy, 1913)

The genus was established in 1902 by Leopold Melichar in his monograph of the families Acanaloniidae and Flatidae.^[1][2] Melichar designated Carl Linnaeus' O. truncata to be the type species of his new genus, but Melichar's specimens were not of the species described by Linnaeus. A replacement name of Oryxa melichari was therefore chosen for Melichar's species; the status of Linnaeus' species remains unclear.^[3]

Species

Fulgoromorpha Lists on the Web^[4] includes:

1. Oryxa carinulata (Schmidt, 1904)
2. Oryxa extendens Melichar, 1902
3. Oryxa melichari Kirkaldy, 1913