The Platypleurini are a tribe of cicadas from the Afrotropical and Oriental regions[1] There are at least 30 genera and 240 described species in Platypleurini.[2][3]

Platypleurini
Platypleura divisa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Superfamily: Cicadoidea
Family: Cicadidae
Subfamily: Cicadinae
Tribe: Platypleurini
Schmidt, 1918
Yanga andriana

List of genera edit

These 31 genera belong to the tribe Platypleurini:[2]

References edit

  1. ^ Moulds, M. S. (2005). "An appraisal of the higher classification of cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea) with special reference to the Australian fauna". Records of the Australian Museum. 57 (3): 375–446. doi:10.3853/j.0067-1975.57.2005.1447.
  2. ^ a b Marshall, David C.; Moulds, Max; Hill, Kathy B. R.; Price, Benjamin W.; et al. (2018). "A molecular phylogeny of the cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) with a review of tribe and subfamily classification". Zootaxa. 4424 (1). Magnolia Press: 1–64. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4424.1.1. PMID 30313477.
  3. ^ "GBIF". Retrieved 2018-07-03.