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Broadwing Cicadas
Platypleurini
The Platypleurini are a tribe of cicadas from the Afrotropical and Indomalayan realms. There are at least 240 described species in Platypleurini. The earliest member of the group is the fossil cicada Eoplatypleura, from the Eocene aged Messel Pit locality of Germany, which is also the oldest confirmed member of Cicadinae and one of the oldest Cicadids known from Eurasia.
39 branches of this tribe, most-observed first
Planopleura
genusPlanopleura
Asianopleura
genusAsianopleura
Orangewing Cicadas
genusPlatypleura
Sharpcollar Cicadas
genusOxypleura
Eopycna
genusEopycna
Suisha
genusSuisha
Yanga
genusYanga
Large Tree Cicadas
genusDyticopycna
Neoplatypleura
genusNeoplatypleura
Ugada
genusUgada
Broadborder Cicadas
genusMunza
Thorntree Cicadas
genusBrevisiana
Ioba
genusIoba
Capcicada
genusCapcicada
Orapa
genusOrapa
Soudaniella
genusSoudaniella
Sadaka
genusSadaka
Severiana
genusSeveriana
Koma
genusKoma
Hamza
genusHamza
Afzeliada
genusAfzeliada
Greenwing Cicadas
genusKongota
Tigripleura
genusTigripleura
Pycna
genusPycna
Sechellalna
genusSechellalna
Muansa
genusMuansa
Albanycada
genusAlbanycada
Canualna
genusCanualna
Attenuella
genusAttenuella
Esada
genusEsada
Hainanosemia
genusHainanosemia
Karscheliana
genusKarscheliana
Kalabita
genusKalabita
Strumosella
genusStrumosella
Strumoseura
genusStrumoseura
Umjaba
genusUmjaba
Maputaland Orangewing Cicadas
genusTugelana
Azanicada
genusAzanicada
Poecilopsaltria
genusPoecilopsaltria
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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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 335506.