''Flatosoma'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

planthopper A planthopper is any insect in the infraorder Fulgoromorpha, in the suborder Auchenorrhyncha, a group exceeding 12,500 described species worldwide. The name comes from their remarkable resemblance to leaves and other plants of their environment ...

s in the

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Flatidae Flatidae are a family of fulgoroid planthoppers. They are Cosmopolitan distribution, cosmopolitan in distribution and are distinguished from others in the superfamily by a combination of characters. Like all other planthoppers, they suck phloe ...

. It was first described by Leopold Melichar in 1901. Species in the genus are found in

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Species

FLOW lists the following species (which may have been originally placed in the genus '' Paraflata''): # '' Flatosoma diastola'' (Schmidt, 1909) # '' Flatosoma signoreti'' (Melichar, 1901)

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q10496537 Flatidae Auchenorrhyncha genera Insects of Malaysia