Species

Platylomia amicta (Distant, 1889)

Descendants and synonyms

Dundubia amicta Distant, 1889b: 51.
Holotype; male; BMNH(E) 1009473; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); India, Karnataka: Karwar, E.F.T. Atkinson
Cosmopsaltria amicta (Distant, 1889) in Distant, 1889a: 43.

Distant, W.L. (1889a) A monograph of Oriental Cicadidae. West, Newman & Co.; R. Friedlander & Sohn. London; Berlin. 1-48. pl. i-iv.
Distant, W.L. (1889b) Descriptions of a new genus and some new species of Cicadidae belonging to the Oriental Region. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (Ser. 6), 3, 49–53.

Distant, W.L. (1906i) Rhynchota. Heteroptera-Homoptera. Bingham, C. T. (ed.). The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Taylor and Francis, London. Vol. 3: i–xiv, 1–503.
Price, B.W., Allan, E.L., Marathe, K., Sarkar, V., Simon, C.M. & Kunte, K. (2016) The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, Nepal and Sri Lanka: an annotated provisional catalogue, regional checklist and bibliography. Biodiversity Data Journal, 4(e8051), 1–156. https://doi.org/10.3897/bdj.4.e8051

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Latin: clothed, covered; surrounded; veiled

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
Taxon	Valid names
Rank	Extant	Fossil	Invalid	Total
Species	1	0	2	3