Planopleura
| Planopleura | |
|---|---|
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| Planopleura kaempferi | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Auchenorrhyncha |
| Family: | Cicadidae |
| Subfamily: | Cicadinae |
| Tribe: | Platypleurini |
| Genus: | Planopleura Lee, 2024 |
Planopleura is a genus of Asian cicadas in the tribe Platypleurini, erected by Young June Lee in 2024.[1] He named it from the Latin 'plano-' meaning flat and the similar (type genus of the tribe) Platypleura, where several species were placed previously. Species distribution records include: India, China, Korea, Japan, Indochina, Malesia through to New Guinea.[2]
Species
[edit]The World Auchenorrhyncha Database[2] includes:
- Planopleura albivannata (Hayashi, 1974) – Japan
- Planopleura assamensis (Atkinson, 1884)
- Planopleura dinagatensis (Lee, 2016)
- Planopleura elizabethae (Lee, 2009)
- Planopleura fuscangulis (Butler, 1874)
- Planopleura kaempferi(ja) (Fabricius, 1794) – Japan, China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Malaysia, Russia, Korean Peninsula – type species by original designation of Planopleura
- Planopleura kuroiwae (Matsumura, 1917) – Japan
- Planopleura miyakona (Matsumura, 1917) – Japan
- Planopleura ridleyana (Distant, 1905) - Vietnam, western Malesia
- Planopleura takasagona (Matsumura, 1917)
- Planopleura transitiva (Lee, 2021) - Philippines
- Planopleura yayeyamana (Matsumura, 1917) – Japan
References
[edit]- ^ Lee YJ (2024) Descriptions of two new cicada genera and a new species of Platypleurini (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadinae), with some taxonomic changes and comments on the genus Platypleura Amyot & Audinet-Serville. Journal of Insect Biodiversity, 54(2), 48–57. available here
- ^ a b World Auchenorrhyncha Database: genus Planopleura Lee, 2024 (retrieved 10 June 2025)
External links
[edit]- Images at iNaturalist
Media related to Platypleura at Wikimedia Commons
