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Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (6)

  • Platypleura kuroiwae Matsumura, 1917a: 187.

    Syntypes; male; 0ba2d734-fb02-4e13-a1f3-71ad19db4afd; deposited at: Entomological Institute, Hokkaido University (EIHU); Japan, Nansei Islands: Okinawa, Naha, collected by Mr. K. Kuroiwa

  • Platypleura kuroiwae kuroiwae Matsumura, 1917a: 187.
  • Munza kuroiwai [sic] (Matsumura, 1917) (misspelling of Platypleura kuroiwae Matsumura, 1917) in Miyamoto & Miyatake, 1964a: 118.
  • Planopleura kuroiwae (Matsumura, 1917) in Lee, 2024: 52.

Nomenclature references (4)

  • Matsumura, S. (1917a) A list of the Japanese and Formosan Cicadidae, with descriptions of new species and genera. Transactions of the Sapporo Natural History Society, 6, 186–212.
  • Kato, M. (1927a) A catalogue of Japanese Cicadidae, with descriptions of new genus, species and others. Transactions of the Natural History Society of Formosa, 17(88), 19–41.
  • Miyamoto, S. & Miyatake, Y. (1964a) Cicadidae collected by the Jyushu University Expedition to the Yaeyama group. 1963. Rep. Comm. For. Scient. Res., Kyushu Univ., 2, 117–120. [in Japanese]
  • 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
Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

after Mr. K. Kuroiwa, the collector of the type specimen

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Species1045