Tropical-pasture-pest
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Prosapia ignifera
Prosapia ignifera is a spittlebug species in the family Ischnorhinidae, described by Hamilton in 1977. It belongs to the genus Prosapia, which includes economically significant pasture pests. The species is part of a group of tropical spittlebugs that cause substantial damage to forage grasses and sugarcane. Unlike the congeneric Prosapia bicincta, which has been extensively documented as an invasive pest in Hawaiʻi since 2016, specific biological and ecological data for P. ignifera remain limited in published sources.