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genus

Platypleura Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (29)

  • Platypleura Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843a: 465. (Official List of Generic Names in Zoological Nomenclature in International Commission On Zoological Nomenclature, 2020: 147)

    type species by subsequent designation Cicada stridula Linnaeus, 1758 in Westwood, 1843d: 33

  • Patypleura [sic] Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843 in Stål, 1854b: 241.
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  • Systophlochius Villet, 1989 (subjective synonym of Platypleura Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843) in Villet, Barker & Lunt, 2005a: 589.
  • Tugelana Distant, 1912 (subjective synonym of Platypleura Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843) in Villet & Edwards, 2021: 407.

Type

Cicada stridula Linnaeus, 1758 type species by subsequent designation of Platypleura Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843

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No descendants observations found
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Greek: πλατύς (flat, broad, wide) + πλευρά (pleura)

Nomenclature references (21)

  • Amyot, C.J.-B. & Audinet-Serville, J.G. (1843a) Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Hémiptères. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret. Paris, lxxvi + 676 pp. + 12 pls.
  • Biscoe, W.F. (1896a) Liquid discharge from cicada insects. The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 10, 535–536.
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  • Distant, W.L. (1912b) New genera and species of Rhynchota (Homoptera). Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (Ser. 8), 9, 640–652.
  • Gerstaecker, C.E.A. (1863b) Hemiptera-Homoptera. In Handbuch der Zoologie. Zweiter Band. Arthropoden bearbeitet von A. Gerstaecker. Raderthiere, Würmer, Echinodermen, Coelenteraten und Protozoen bearbeitet von J. Victor Carus. Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig. Vol. 2, pp. 285–303. [viii + 642 pp.]
  • Haupt, H. (1917c) Fünf neue Homopteren des indo-malayischen Faunengebietes. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung, 78, 303–309.
  • International Commission On Zoological Nomenclature, I.C.Z.N. (2020) Opinion 2466 (Case 3761) – Platypleurini Schmidt, 1918 (Insecta, Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha, Cicadoidea): name conserved by conditional reversal of precedence. The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 77, 147–149.
  • Karsch, F.A.F. (1890b) Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Singcikaden Afrika's und Madagaskar's. Berliner entomologische Zeitschrift, 35, 85–130.
  • Kato, M. (1930) Notes on the distribution of Cicadidae in Japanese Empire. Bulletin of the Biogeographical Society of Japan, 2(1), 36–76.
  • Kato, M. (1930b) [Notes on some Chinese Cicadidae.]. Transactions of the Natural History Society of Formosa, 20, 369–374.
  • Kato, M. (1954a) [Cicadas of Japan. I.]. Shin Konchū. 7 (7): 46-52.
  • Liu, K.C. (1990a) All about Chinese cicadas. I. Cicada Science in China. Chinese Journal of Entomology (Zhonghua Kunchong)., 10, 37–47.
  • Mammen, H. (1912a) Über die Morphologie der Heteropteren-und Homopterenstigmen. Zool. Jahrb. Anat., 34, 121–178.
  • Matsumura, S. (1907b) Die Cicadinen Japans. Annotationes Zoologicae Japonenses. Tokyo, 6, 83–116.
  • Myers, J.G. (1928a) Cicadidae. In Insects of Samoa and other Samoan terrestrial Arthropoda. Vol. 2, Issue 2, pp. 55–65.
  • Shing-Chiu, S. (1975a) Classification of Cordyceps sobolifera (Hill.) Berk. Et Br. and Cordyceps cicadae Shing sp.nov. Acta microbiol. Sin., 15(1), 21–26. [in Chinese]
  • Stål, C. (1854b) Nya Hemiptera. Öfversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, 11(8), 231–255.
  • Villet, M.H. & Edwards, S. (2021) The cicada genus Tugelana Distant, 1912 (Hemiptera, Cicadidae): phylogenetic position and conservation status. African Invertebrates, 62(2), 399–410. https://doi.org/10.3897/afrinvertebr.62.66891
  • Villet, M.H. (1989b) New taxa of South African platypleurine cicadas (Homoptera: Cicadidae). Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 52(1), 51–70.
  • Villet, M.H., Barker, N.P. & Lunt, N. (2005a) Mechanisms generating biological diversity in the genus Platypleura Amyot & Serville, 1843 (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) in southern Africa: implications of a preliminary molecular phylogeny. South African Journal of Science, 100, 589–594.
  • Westwood, J.O. (1843d) Description of some homopterous insects from the East Indies. In Arcana entomologica; or illustrations of new, rare, and interesting insects. William Smith, London. Vol. 2, Issue 15, pp. 33–35. [1845; 191 + 1 (Errata et corrigenda) pp. + 48 pls.]
  • Young, D.A., Jr. (1972b) Neuromuscular mechanism of sound production in Australian cicadas. Z. vergl. Physiol., 79, 343–362.

Stats

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
genus101516
species610113174
subspecies2035