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Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (5)

  • Platypleura yayeyamana Matsumura, 1917a: 188.

    Syntypes; male; f318f585-b6d8-48be-a9f4-a9d923192ae4; deposited at: Entomological Institute, Hokkaido University (EIHU); Japan, Okinawa: Yayeyama, Ishigakijima, collected by Messrs. K. Kuroiwa and T. Iwasaki

  • Platypleura kaempferi yayeyamana Matsumura, 1917 in Kato, 1930: 47.
  • Platypleura yaeyamana [sic] (Matsumura, 1917) (misspelling of Platypleura yayeyamana Matsumura, 1917) in Shiyake, 2007a: 2.
  • Planopleura yayeyamana (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. (1930) Notes on the distribution of Cicadidae in Japanese Empire. Bulletin of the Biogeographical Society of Japan, 2(1), 36–76.
  • Shiyake, S. (2007a) World Cicadas 200. Osaka Museum of Natural History, Osaka. 126pp. (In Japanese). [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:

from Yaeyama Islands (Okinawa, Japan)

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Species1034