The Platypleurini are a
tribe
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of
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 from the
Afrotropical
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and
Indomalayan realm
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Also called the Oriental realm by biogeographers, Indomalaya spreads all over the Ind ...
s. There are at least 240 described species in Platypleurini.
[ The earliest member of the group is the ]fossil
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cicada '' Eoplatypleura'', from the Eocene
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aged Messel Pit
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locality of Germany, which is also the oldest confirmed member of Cicadinae
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and one of the oldest Cicadids known from Eurasia
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.
Genera
The following belong to the tribe Platypleurini:[
# '' Afzeliada''
# '' Albanycada''
# '' Attenuella''
# '' Azanicada''
# '' Brevisiana''
# '' Canualna''
# '' Capcicada''
# '']Dyticopycna
''Dyticopycna'' is a genus of mainland African cicadas in the tribe Platypleurini, erected by Allen Sanborn in 2020;Sanborn AF (2020) Redescription of the cicada genus Pycna Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843 (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadinae: Platyp ...
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# ''Eopycna
''Eopycna'' is a genus of Asian cicadas in the tribe Platypleurini, erected by species:Allen F. Sanborn, Allen Sanborn in 2020; he named it from the Greek: ἠώς (early, dawn) and the similar genus ''Pycna'', where several species were placed b ...
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# '' Esada''
# '' Hainanosemia''
# ''Hamza
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# ''Ioba
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Departments
Ioba is divided into 8 departments:
* Dano
* Dissin
* Guéguéré
*Koper
* Niégo
* ...
''
# '' Kalabita''
# '' Karscheliana''
# '' Koma''
# '' Kongota''
# '' Muansa''
# '' Munza''
# '' Neoplatypleura''
# ''Orapa
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# ''Oxypleura
''Oxypleura'' is a genus of Asian cicadas in the tribe Platypleurini, erected by Charles Jean-Baptiste Amyot and Jean Guillaume Audinet-Serville in 1843;Amyot CJ-B, Audinet-Serville, JG (1843) ''Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Hémiptères''. Li ...
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# ''Planopleura
''Planopleura'' is a genus of Asian cicadas in the tribe Platypleurini, erected by species:Young June Lee, Young June Lee in 2024.Lee YJ (2024) Descriptions of two new cicada genera and a new species of Platypleurini (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadi ...
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# ''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''.
S ...
'' (synonym ''Tugelana'' )
# '' Pycna''
# '' Sadaka''
# '' Sechellalna''
# '' Severiana''
# '' Soudaniella''
# '' Strumosella''
# '' Strumoseura''
# '' Suisha''
# '' Tigripleura''
# '' Ugada''
# '' Umjaba''
# '' Yanga''
References
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Cicadinae
Hemiptera tribes