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Sharpcollar Cicadas
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Sharpcollar Cicadas

Oxypleura

Oxypleura is a genus of Asian cicadas in the tribe Platypleurini, erected by Charles Jean-Baptiste Amyot and Jean Guillaume Audinet-Serville in 1843; they named it from the Greek: οξύς (sharp) and pleura (πλευρά). Species distribution records include: Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, India, Indochina and Australia.

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4 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Savanna Sharpcollar Cicada

speciesOxypleura quadraticollis

Coastal Sharpcollar Cicada

speciesOxypleura lenihani

Christmas Island Cicada

speciesOxypleura calypso

Oxypleura atkinsoni

speciesOxypleura atkinsoni

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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 337497.