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Sri Lanka is a tropical island situated close to the southern tip of India. The invertebrate fauna is as large as it is common to other regions of the world. There are about two million species of arthropods found in the world, and still is counting.
The following list is about confirmed hemipterans recorded in Sri Lanka, though many new unconfirmed sightings are existent.
Hemipterans
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
The Hemiptera order of insects includes the insects commonly known as the true bugs. The order includes planthoppers, leafhoppers, shield bugs, cicadas, aphids. More than 70,000 species are distributed worldwide. Most hemipterans are plant sap feeders, some are parasitic, while the rest are predators who attack small insects and small invertebrates. Most species are terrestrial and a few are aquatic. Hemipterans are hemimetabolous, where young are similar to adults in the morphology. Hemipterans are economically important insects, where most of them are agricultural pests and vertebrate parasites.
The following list provide the hemipterans currently identified in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka is known to be home for 794 species of hemipterans included to 71 families. Detailed work of Sri Lankan hemipterans are recorded in book Catalogue of Hemiptera of Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka comprises 74 species in 46 genera and 6 families of aphids within order Hemiptera. Two endemic aphid species found on Sri Lanka. Many researches have been carried out by different hemipteran families by local and overseas experts.
In 2009, M. Prashanthini and M. Vinobaba of Eastern University of Sri Lanka carried out experiments on mealybugs and identified 38 species of mealybugs from Sri Lanka with new exotic species. Un updated systematic catalogue of cicadas of South Asia have been published in 2016. According to that, 22 species of cicadas were recorded from Sri Lanka. Chopra and Rustagi in 2012 published the characters of the subfamily Chauliopinae from India and Sri Lanka.
In 2012, B. Vasantharaj David compiled the checklist and diversity of whiteflies of Sri Lanka with new records of seven species and new Pealius species from Sri Lanka. Fourteen species belonging to eight genera of soft scales were identified with two introduced species from Sri Lanka. The provisional checklist of the leafhoppers in Sri Lanka have been compiled by Dr. Rajendramani Gnaneswaran of the department of zoology, University of Jaffna. With her revision, 257 leafhopper species belonging to 120 genera have been identified from Sri Lanka.
Family: Achilidae - achilid planthoppers
- Akotropis malayana
- Callinesia fimbriolata
- Caristianus indicus
- Chroneba pallifrons
- Epirama conspergata
- Gordiacea oculata
- Indorupex albivenulosa
- Magadha nebulosa
- Paratangia marginata
- Paratangia notata
- Tangina bipunctata
Family: Aclerdidae - aclerdid scales
Family: Adelgidae - spruce aphids
Family: Aleyrodidae - whiteflies
- Aleurocanthus citriperdus
- Aleurocanthus ficicola
- Aleurocanthus martini
- Aleurocanthus niger
- Aleurocanthus nigricans
- Aleurocanthus piperis
- Aleurocanthus spiniferus
- Aleurocanthus woglumi
- Aleuroclava selvakumarani
- Aleuroclava srilankaensis
- Aleurodicus antidesmae
- Aleurolobus flavus
- Aleurolobus greeni
- Aleurolobus marlatti
- Aleurolobus setigerus
- Aleuroplatus incisus
- Aleuroplatus pectiniferus
- Aleuroplatus premnae
- Aleuroplatus spina
- Aleurotrachelus longispinus
- Aleyrodes hyperici
- Bemisia tabaci
- Crescentaleyrodes semilunaris
- Dialeurodes citri
- Dialeurodes decempuncta
- Dialeurodes dissimilis
- Dialeurodes ixorae
- Dialeurodes loranthi
- Dialeurodes radiilinealis
- Dialeurodes radiipuncta
- Dialeurolonga maculata
- Dialeuropora decempuncta
- Laingiella bambusae
- Minutaleyrodes minuta
- Neomaskellia andropogonis
- Orientaleyrodes zeylanicus
- Pealius nelsoni
- Rhachisphora capitatis
- Rhachisphora rutherfordi
- Rhachisphora setulosa
- Rhachisphora trilobitoides
- Tetraleurodes psidii
- Tetraleurodes rugosus
- Vasdavidius setiferus
- Zaphanera cyanotis
Family: Alydidae - broad-headed bugs
Family: Aphalaridae
Family: Aphididae
Main article: List of aphids of Sri LankaFamily: Aphrophoridae - spittlebugs
Family: Aradidae - flat bugs
- Aneurus greeni
- Mezira membranacea
- Neuroctenus hyalinipennis
- Singhalaptera secunda
- Signocoris nilgiricus
Family: Asterolecaniidae - pit scales
- Amorphococcus mesuae
- Asterolecanium bella
- Asterolecanium coronatum
- Asterolecanium epidendri
- Asterolecanium miliaris
- Bambusaspis bambusae
- Bambusaspis delicatum
- Bambusaspis longa
- Bambusaspis longum
- Bambusaspis miliaris
- Bambusaspis pseudomiliaris
- Bambusaspis solenophoroides
- Polea ceylonica
Family: Belostomatidae - giant water bugs
Family: Berytidae - stilt bugs
Family: Caliscelidae - piglet bugs
- Chirodisca eximia
- Lasonia kirkaldyi
- Pterilia ceylonensis
- Pterilia piceata
- Pterilia signata
- Pterygoma nasuta
- Symplana viridinervis
Family: Calophyidae
Family: Carsidaridae
Family: Cercopidae - froghoppers
- Caloscarta capitata
- Caloscarta pallescens
- Cosmoscarta affinis
- Cosmoscarta egeria
- Cosmoscarta greeni
- Cosmoscarta heroina
- Cosmoscarta inconspicua
- Cosmoscarta taprobanensis
- Eoscarta apicata
- Homalostethus tennanti
- Leptataspis inclusa
- Rhinastria bicolor