''Platybrachys'' 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 ...
of Australian Fulgoromorph
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 within the family
Eurybrachidae
Eurybrachidae (sometimes misspelled "Eurybrachyidae" or "Eurybrachiidae") is a small Taxonomic rank, family of planthoppers with species occurring in parts of Asia, Australia and Africa. They are remarkable for the sophistication of their Mimicry ...
.
Taxonomy
''Fulgoromorpha Lists on the Web''
[Fulgoromorpha Lists On the Web (FLOW): (retrieved 2 October 2023)]
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''Platybrachys'' is a genus of Australian Fulgoromorph planthoppers within the family Eurybrachidae.
Taxonomy
''Fulgoromorpha Lists on the Web'' includes the following species:
# ''Platybrachys aegrota'' Stål, 1863
# ''Platybrachys barbata'' (Fa ...
'' Stål, 1863
# '' Platybrachys lurida'' (Walker, 1851)
# '' Platybrachys maculipennis'' (Le Guillou, 1841)
# '' Platybrachys ornata'' (Lallemand, 1928)
# '' Platybrachys sera'' (Walker, 1851)
# '' Platybrachys sicca'' (Walker, 1851)
# '' Platybrachys vidua'' Stål, 1863
''Kamabrachys gen. nov.''
In October 2023, ''Platybrachys signata'' Distant, 1892 was reassigned as the type species
In International_Code_of_Zoological_Nomenclature, zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the spe ...
of the new genus ''Kamabrachys
''Platybrachys'' is a genus of Australian Fulgoromorph planthoppers within the family Eurybrachidae.
Taxonomy
''Fulgoromorpha Lists on the Web'' includes the following species:
# ''Platybrachys aegrota'' Stål, 1863
# ''Platybrachys barbata'' (Fa ...
'' Constant.[Constant J (2023) Revision of the Eurybrachidae (XVII). The new Australian genus Kamabrachys gen. nov. with ten new species (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha) ''European Journal of Taxonomy'' 895: 1-133.]
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References
External links
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Eurybrachidae
Insects described in 1859
Taxa named by Carl Stål
Insects of Australia