''Dyticopycna'' is a genus of mainland African
cicada
The cicadas () are a superfamily, the Cicadoidea, of insects in the order Hemiptera (true bugs). They are in the suborder Auchenorrhyncha, along with smaller jumping bugs such as leafhoppers and froghoppers. The superfamily is divided into two ...
s in the tribe
Platypleurini
The Platypleurini are a tribe (biology), tribe of cicadas from the Afrotropical realm, Afrotropical and Indomalayan realms. There are at least 240 described species in Platypleurini. The earliest member of the group is the fossil cicada ''Eopla ...
, erected by
Allen Sanborn in 2020;
[Sanborn AF (2020) Redescription of the cicada genus Pycna Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843 (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadinae: Platypleurini) with the formation of two new genera, one new species, one revised species status and twenty-four new combinations. ''Zootaxa'', 4722(2), 157-174]
DOI
/ref> he named it from the Greek: δυτικός (western) and the similar genus '' Pycna'' (now only containing species from Madagascar), where several species were placed before the revision.[ At least four species have also been moved here from '']Platypleura
''Platypleura'' is a genus of cicadas, occurring widely across Africa and southern Asia; it belongs to the tribe Platypleurini and species previously included here are now placed in other genera, such as '' Planopleura'' and '' Dyticopycna''.
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Species distribution records are from ]Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa is the area and regions of the continent of Africa that lie south of the Sahara. These include Central Africa, East Africa, Southern Africa, and West Africa. Geopolitically, in addition to the list of sovereign states and ...
: especially the West and South of the continent.[World Auchenorrhyncha Database: genus ''Dyticopycna'' Sanborn, 2020]
(retrieved 14 June 2025)
Species
The ''World Auchenorrhyncha Database''[ includes:
# '' Dyticopycna antinorii''
# '' Dyticopycna baxteri''
# '' Dyticopycna beccarii''
# '' Dyticopycna dolosa''
# '' Dyticopycna hecuba''
# '' Dyticopycna moniquae''
# '' Dyticopycna natalensis''
# '' Dyticopycna neavei''
# '' Dyticopycna passosdecarvalhoi''
# '' Dyticopycna quanza''
# '' Dyticopycna semiclara'' – type species (as ''Cicada semiclara'' and original designation of ''Dyticopycna'' )
# '' Dyticopycna sylvia''
# '' Dyticopycna umbelinae''
# '' Dyticopycna vitrea''
# '' Dyticopycna vitticollis''
# '' Dyticopycna zambiaensis''
]
References
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Platypleurini
Cicadidae genera
Taxa described in 2020
Hemiptera of Africa