genus

Neoplatypleura Kato, 1926

Neoplatypleura Kato, 1926f: 238. (valid in Lee, 2024: 50)
type species by original designation Cicada nobilis Germar, 1830
Platypleura (Neoplatypleura) Kato, 1926 in Wu, 1935a: 1.

Neoplatypleura Kato, 1926 (subjective synonym of Platypleura Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843) in Hayashi, 1974b: 232.

Cicada nobilis Germar, 1830 type species by original designation of Neoplatypleura Kato, 1926

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Greek: νέος (new) + Platypleura

Hayashi, M. (1974b) The cicadas of the genus Platypleura (Homoptera, Cicadidae) in the Ryukyu Archipelago, with the description of a new species. Kontyû, Tokyo Entomological Society, 42(3), 232–253.
Kato, M. (1926f) A new genus of Cicadidae. Transactions of the Natural History Society of Formosa, 16, 238.

Lee, Y.J. (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. https://doi.org/10.12976/jib/2024.54.2.3
Wu, C.-F. (1935a) Catalogus insectorum sinensium. (Catalogue of Chinese insects). Fan Memorial Institute of Biology. Peiping, Vol. 2, ii + 634 pp.