Platypleura

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Paraneoptera
Superordo: Condylognatha
Ordo: Hemiptera
Subordo: Auchenorrhyncha
Infraordo: Cicadomorpha
Superfamilia: Cicadoidea

Familia: Cicadidae
Subfamilia: Cicadinae
Tribus: Platypleurini
Genus: Platypleura
Species: P. albivannata – P. dinagatensis – P. divisa – P. elizabethae – P. hilpa – P. kaempferi – P. kuroiwae – P. lourensi – P. miyakona – P. stridula – P. takasagona – P. poorvachala – P. yayeyamana

Name

Platypleura Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843: 465

Type species: Cicada stridula Linnaeus, 1758

References
Primary references

Amyot, J.B. & Audinet-Serville, J.G. 1843. Histoire naturelle des insectes. Hémiptères. 657 pp. Librairie encyclopédique de Roret, Paris. BHL Reference page.

Additional references

Lee, Y.J., Marshall, D.C., Mohagan, A.B. & Hill, K.B.R. 2016. Cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) from Camiguin of Mindanao Province and Dinagat Island in the Philippines, with a new genus and three new species. Zootaxa 4097(1): 187–202. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4097.1.2 Reference page.
Marathe, K., Yeshwanth, H.M., Basu, D.N. & Kunte, K. 2017. A new species of Platypleura Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843 (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadinae) from the Eastern Ghats of Andhra Pradesh, India. Zootaxa 4311(4): 523–536. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4311.4.5. Reference page.

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Vernacular names
日本語: ニイニイゼミ属

Platypleura is a genus of cicadas that occurs widely across Africa and southern Asia. Some of the South African species are remarkable for their endothermic thermoregulation that enables crepuscular signalling, an adaptation that reduces risk of predation and enables a greater range for their calls. In field experiments their maximum body temperature while calling at dusk, was measured at 22 °C above ambient temperature.[1]

The Platypleurini are distributed from the Cape in South Africa, throughout sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar, through India and south East Asia, to Japan.[2] The faunas of West Africa and Madagascar are distinctive, while those of southern and east Africa resemble the Asian group. Endothermy occurs in several large-bodied South American and South African species, but not in related small-bodied species.[3]
List of species

Platypleura affinis (Fabricius, 1803)
Platypleura afzelii Stål, 1854
Platypleura albigera Walker, 1850 – Western Cape, Eastern Cape
Platypleura albivannata Hayashi, 1974 – Japan
Platypleura andamana Distant, 1878 – Andaman Islands
Platypleura arabica Myers, 1928 – United Arab Emirates[4]
Platypleura argentata Villet, 1987 – Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa
Platypleura arminops (Noualhier, 1896) – Thailand[5]
Platypleura assamensis Atkinson, 1884 – Jalpaiguri
Platypleura auropilosa (Kato, 1940) – Thailand[5]
Platypleura basimacula Walker, 1850 – Kwazulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, Limpopo, Northwest Province, Free State, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Platypleura basi-viridis Walker, 1850 – India[6]
Platypleura bettoni Distant, 1904
Platypleura bombifrons Karsch, 1890 – Mpumalanga, Limpopo, Zimbabwe
Platypleura brevis Walker, 1850 – Kwazulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, Limpopo, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Malawi
Platypleura brunea Villet, 1989a – Eastern Cape, South Africa
Platypleura canescens Walker, 1870 – East Timor
Platypleura capensis (Linnaeus, 1764) – Western Cape and Eastern Cape, South Africa on Metalasia muricata, Brachylaena discolor
Platypleura capitata (Olivier, 1790)
Platypleura centralis Distant, 1897
Platypleura chalybaea Villet, 1989a – Eastern Cape, South Africa on Euphorbia triangularis
Platypleura ciliaris (Linnaeus, 1758)
Platypleura clara Amyot & Serville, 1843
Platypleura deusta (Thunberg, 1822) – Mpumalanga, Kwazulu-Natal and Lesotho, South Africa on Leucosidea sericea, Cliffortia
Platypleura divisa (Germar, 1834) – Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Kwazulu-Natal and Eastern Cape, South Africa on Maytenus heterophylla
Platypleura fenestrata Uhler, 1862a[7]
Platypleura fulvigera (Walker, 1850)
Platypleura gowdeyi Distant, 1914 – South Africa on Acacia gerrardii
Platypleura haglundi Stål, 1866 – Northwest Province, Free State, Limpopo, Gauteng, Mpumalanga and Kwazulu-Natal, to Zimbabwe, Southern Africa on Acacia karroo, Acacia, Dichrostachys cinerea
Platypleura hilpa (Walker, 1850)
Platypleura hirta Karsch, 1890 – Limpopo, Gauteng and Mpumalanga
Platypleura hirtipennis (Germar, 1834) – Eastern Cape, South Africa on Acacia karroo
Platypleura kaempferi(ja) (Fabricius, 1794) – Japan, China, Russia, Malaysia, Korean Peninsula, Taiwan.
Platypleura kuroiwae Matsumura, 1917 – Japan
Platypleura laticlavia Stål, 1858 – Northwest Province, Limpopo, Northern Cape, Botswana, Namibia
Platypleura lindiana Distant, 1905
Platypleura lyricen Kirkaldy
Platypleura machadoi Boulard, 1972[7]
Platypleura marshalli Distant, 1897
Platypleura maytenophila Villet, 1987 – Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa on Maytenus heterophylla
Platypleura mijburghi Villet, 1989a – Gauteng, Mpumalanga and Limpopo, South Africa on Maytenus heterophylla

Platypleura mijburghi

Platypleura mira (Distant, 1904) – Thailand[5]
Platypleura miyakona Matsumura, 1917 – Japan
Platypleura murchisoni Distant, 1905e – Mpumalanga
Platypleura nigrolinea (De Geer, 1773) = P. stridula
Platypleura nobilis (Germar, 1830) – Thailand[5]
Platypleura octoguttata (Fabricius, 1798)
Platypleura poorvachala (Marathe et al., 2017)
Platypleura plumosa (Germar, 1834) – Eastern Cape, South Africa on Acacia karroo
Platypleura punctigera Walker, 1850 – Kwazulu-Natal, Eastern Cape
Platypleura quadraticollis Butler, 1874 – Mpumalanga, Limpopo, Botswana, Zimbabwe
Platypleura rutherfordi Distant, 1883
Platypleura signifera Walker, 1850 – Eastern Cape
Platypleura sobrina Stål, 1866
Platypleura stridula (Linnaeus, 1758) – Western Cape, South Africa on Salix
Platypleura sylvia Distant, 1899 – Sekhukhuneland
Platypleura takasagonazh Matsumura, 1917 – Taiwan
Platypleura techowi Schumacher, 1913 – Northern Cape, Free State, North West Province, Limpopo and Mpumalanga
Platypleura turneri Boulard, 1975a – Western Cape
Platypleura wahlbergi Stål, 1855 – Eastern Cape and Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa on Acacia karroo
Platypleura watsoni (Distant, 1897) – Thailand
Platypleura westwoodi Stål, 1863
Platypleura yayeyamana Matsumura, 1917 – Japan[8]
Platypleura zuluensis Villet, 1987 – Eastern Cape, Western Cape, Kwazulu-Natal

References
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Sanborn, Allen F. (2003). "Hot-blooded singers: endothermy facilitates crepuscular signaling in African platypleurine cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Platypleura spp.)". Naturwissenschaften. 90 (7): 305–308. Bibcode:2003NW.....90..305S. doi:10.1007/s00114-003-0428-1. PMID 12883772. S2CID 9090814.
"Platypleurini, cicadas". Archived from the original on 2007-06-29. Retrieved 2008-12-20.
pers. comm. prof Martin Villet, Rhodes University
Natural Emirates: Wildlife and Environment of the United Arab Emirates. 1996. ISBN 9781900724029.
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Platypleura basi-viridis (No common name) Archived 2013-12-30 at the Wayback Machine
http://www.fcla.edu/FlaEnt/fe82p34.pdf[bare URL PDF]
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