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Ricania simulans

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Ricania simulans is a species in the family Ricaniidae, order Hemiptera. Source checklists list it for 3 countries: India, South Korea and Taiwan.

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Quick facts about Ricania simulans

Weight
Not recorded
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
3 countriessrc for Countries on record

Where does Ricania simulans live?

Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.

Ricania simulans is listed for 3 countries.

South KoreaIndiaTaiwan
  • Listed
  • Not listed
small islands are not drawn at this scale

The same countries as a list

  1. India
  2. South Korea
  3. Taiwan

Why a country list is not a range map

Is Ricania simulans endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is Ricania simulans classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderHemiptera
  5. familyRicaniidae
  6. genusRicania
  7. SpeciesRicania simulans (Walker, 1851)

Synonyms Flatoides episcopus, Pochazia simulans, Ricania episcopus, Ricania japonica simulans, Ricania simulans

Other names and names in other languages (1)
  • 條紋廣翅蠟蟬Chinese

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of Ricania simulans

Other species in the same genus Ricania.

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Common questions

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Where does Ricania simulans live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list Ricania simulans for 3 countries: India, South Korea and Taiwan. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

What kind of animal is Ricania simulans?

Ricania simulans (Ricania simulans) belongs to the family Ricaniidae in the order Hemiptera.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-11. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Ricania simulans (Ricania simulans). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/ricania-simulans

MLA

“Ricania simulans (Ricania simulans).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/ricania-simulans.

BibTeX
@misc{ricania_simulans_2026,
  title = {Ricania simulans (Ricania simulans)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/ricania-simulans},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}