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Planopleura
Planopleura is a genus of Asian cicadas in the tribe Platypleurini, erected by Young June Lee in 2024. He named it from the Latin 'plano-' meaning flat and the similar (type genus of the tribe) Platypleura, where several species were placed previously. Species distribution records include: India, China, Korea, Japan, Indochina, Malesia through to New Guinea.
12 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Kaempfer Cicada
speciesPlanopleura kaempferi

Planopleura takasagona
speciesPlanopleura takasagona

Planopleura kuroiwae
speciesPlanopleura kuroiwae

Planopleura assamensis
speciesPlanopleura assamensis

Planopleura fuscangulis
speciesPlanopleura fuscangulis

Planopleura ridleyana
speciesPlanopleura ridleyana

Planopleura yayeyamana
speciesPlanopleura yayeyamana

Planopleura miyakona
speciesPlanopleura miyakona

Planopleura elizabethae
speciesPlanopleura elizabethae

Planopleura albivannata
speciesPlanopleura albivannata
Planopleura dinagatensis
speciesPlanopleura dinagatensis
Planopleura transitiva
speciesPlanopleura transitiva
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1594919.