Neoplatypleura
| Neoplatypleura | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Auchenorrhyncha |
| Family: | Cicadidae |
| Subfamily: | Cicadinae |
| Tribe: | Platypleurini |
| Genus: | Kato, 1926 |
| Synonyms | |
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Platypleura (Neoplatypleura) Kato, 1926 | |
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Neoplatypleura is a genus of Asian cicadas in the tribe Platypleurini, erected by Masayo Kato in 1926,[1] but long placed as a subgenus until being restored in 2024.[2] The name is derived from the Greek: νέος (new) and the similar (type genus of the tribe) Platypleura; species distribution records include: India, China, Indochina and Malesia.[3]
Species
The World Auchenorrhyncha Database[3] includes:
- Neoplatypleura badia (Distant, 1888)
- Neoplatypleura insignis (Distant, 1879)
- Neoplatypleura nobilis (Germar, 1830) - type species (as Cicada nobilis Germar, 1830) - Thailand
- Neoplatypleura vitreolimbata (Breddin, 1905)
References
- ^ Kato M (1926) A new genus of Cicadidae. Transactions of the Natural History Society of Formosa, 16, 238.
- ^ 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. DOI
- ^ a b World Auchenorrhyncha Database: genus Neoplatypleura Kato, 1926 (retrieved 6 June 2025)