This article is about the genus of planthoppers. For the mythical Indian demons, see Pishacha.
Pisacha
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Hemiptera
Suborder:
Auchenorrhyncha
Infraorder:
Fulgoromorpha
Family:
Nogodinidae
Subfamily:
Nogodininae
Tribe:
Pisachini
Genus:
Pisacha Distant, 1906
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Pisacha is a genus of planthoppers in the tribe Pisachini in the subfamily Nogodininae, erected by William Lucas Distant in 1906.[1] Species have been recorded from South East Asia and Japan.[2]
^Distant WL (1906) The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. 3: 503 pp. [391] Lt. Col. C. T. Birgham.
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Pishachas (Sanskrit: पिशाच, Piśāca) are flesh-eating demons in Indian religions, appearing in Hindu and Buddhist mythologies. A pishacha is a malevolent...
2, Indo-Aryan family. North-western group. Specimens of the Dardic or Piśācha languages (including Kāshmiri). Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent...
Khandava forest (1,225). Nagas lived there with other tribes like the Pisachas, Rakshasas and Daityas and Danavas (clans of Asuras) (1,227). Arjuna burned...
and is the head of all spirits and ghouls and vampires and all kinds of pisachas.[citation needed] The Vetala Panchavimshati is a collection of twenty-five...
2, Indo-Aryan family. North-western group. Specimens of the Dardic or Piśācha languages (including Kāshmiri). Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent...
edition in 1984) Durachara Pisacha Bhanjani (3 booklets: were published together as a single book in 1991 - Durachara Pisacha Bhanjani (1890); Achara Nirukti...
stories he overheard from Shiva; and when Malyavan, falling in with the Pisacha, shall hear from him again the stories that his friend Pushpadanta had...
March 2023. Retrieved 26 March 2023. One hundred and forty millions of Pisachas, twice as many man-eating Rakshasa of terrible deed, and thrice as many...
Languages, North-Western Group Part I Sindhi & Lahnda Part II Dardic or Pisacha Languages (including Kashmiri) IX. Indo-Aryan Languages, Central Group...
2, Indo-Aryan family. North-western group. Specimens of the Dardic or Piśācha languages (including Kāshmiri). Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent...
Yaksha, Kinnera, Kimpurusha, Naga, Vanara, Vidhyadhara, Valikilya, Deva, Pisacha and Rakshasa - ruling different parts of ancient Earth must unite under...
Ravana, who aided in the abduction of Sita. Nikumbha is the Lord of the Pisachas, son of Kumbhakarna. Prahasta is the chief commander of Ravana's army of...
HTT, Tran HN (2024) Pisachini planthoppers of Vietnam: new records of Pisacha and a new Goniopsarites species from Central Vietnam (Hemiptera, Fulgoromorpha...
Rajasuya sacrifice. (3,51) The Daserakas, the Kasmirakas, the Aurasikas, the Pisachas, the Samudgalas, the Kamvojas, and the Vatadhanas were mentioned together...
mystica Melichar, 1899 from Sumatra Goniopsarites Meng, Wang & Wang, 2014 Pisacha Distant, 1906 Auth. Kirkaldy, 1907 - Madagascar, S & SE Asia to Australia...
2, Indo-Aryan family. North-western group. Specimens of the Dardic or Piśācha languages (including Kāshmiri). Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent...
spirit. And that evil spirit by whose influence men are always tormented by Pisachas, is called the Paisacha spirit. When the spirit of Yakshas enters into...
when the curse would end. "A Yaksha named Supratîka, who has been made a Pisacha by the curse of Kuvera, is residing in the Vindhya forest under the name...
illusion made by Rakshasa. Then Ghatotkacha sends many Rakshasas, Yatadhanas, Pisachas to kill Karna. However Karna kills all those. When Bhima hurls Karna to...
Karusha, Pundra, Avanti, Daserka, Kashmira, Ursa, Madugalas, Kambojas, Pisachas, Malavas, Sakas, Yavanas etc. The Daradas along with numerous other tribes...
followed by the Patachcharas, the Hunas, the Pauravakas and the Nishadas, the Pisachas, with the Kundavishas, and the Mandakas, the Ladakas (Ladakh), the Tanganas...
brachycephalic race speaking perhaps an Indo-European language of the "Pisacha or Dardic family", migrated to India from the Iranian plateau and the Pamirs...
Maruts, the Gandharvas, the Apsaras, the Yakshas, the Rakshasas, and the Pisachas could be seen (9:49). Here Vishnu himself, having in days of yore slain...
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