Platypleura


Platypleura is a genus of cicadas, occurring widely across Africa and southern Asia; it is the type genus of the tribe Platypleurini and species previously included here are now placed in other similar genera, such as Planopleura and Dyticopycna.
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.
The Platypleurini are distributed from the Cape in South Africa, throughout sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar, through India and south-eastern Asia, to Japan. 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.

Species

The World Auchenorrhyncha Database includes:
  1. Platypleura adouma
  2. Platypleura affinis
  3. Platypleura andamana – Andaman Islands
  4. Platypleura arabica Myers, 1928 – United Arab Emirates
  5. Platypleura argentata Villet, 1987 – Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa
  6. Platypleura argus
  7. Platypleura arminops – Thailand
  8. Platypleura assamensis Atkinson, 1884 – Jalpaiguri
  9. Platypleura auropilosa – Thailand
  10. Platypleura basimacula Walker, 1850 – Kwazulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, Limpopo, Northwest Province, Free State, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
  11. Platypleura basi-viridis Walker, 1850 – India
  12. Platypleura bettoni Distant, 1904
  13. Platypleura bombifrons Karsch, 1890 – Mpumalanga, Limpopo, Zimbabwe
  14. Platypleura brevis Walker, 1850 – Kwazulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, Limpopo, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Malawi
  15. Platypleura brunea Villet, 1989a – Eastern Cape, South Africa
  16. Platypleura canescens Walker, 1870 – East Timor
  17. Platypleura capensis – Western Cape and Eastern Cape, South Africa on Metalasia muricata, Brachylaena discolor
  18. Platypleura capitata
  19. Platypleura cespiticola
  20. Platypleura centralis Distant, 1897
  21. Platypleura chalybaea Villet, 1989a – Eastern Cape, South Africa on Euphorbia triangularis
  22. Platypleura ciliaris
  23. Platypleura clara Amyot & Serville, 1843
  24. Platypleura coelebs
  25. Platypleura crampeli
  26. Platypleura deusta – Mpumalanga, Kwazulu-Natal and Lesotho, South Africa on Leucosidea sericea, Cliffortia
  27. Platypleura distincta
  28. Platypleura divisa – Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Kwazulu-Natal and Eastern Cape, South Africa on Maytenus heterophylla
  29. Platypleura durvillei
  30. Platypleura fulvigera
  31. Platypleura girardi
  32. Platypleura gowdeyi Distant, 1914 – South Africa on Acacia gerrardii
  33. Platypleura haglundi Stål, 1866 – Northwest Province, Free State, Limpopo, Gauteng, Mpumalanga and Kwazulu-Natal, to Zimbabwe, Southern Africa on Acacia karroo, Acacia, Dichrostachys cinerea
  34. Platypleura hampsoni
  35. Platypleura harmandi
  36. Platypleura hilpa
  37. Platypleura hirta Karsch, 1890 – Limpopo, Gauteng and Mpumalanga
  38. Platypleura hirtipennis – Eastern Cape, South Africa on Acacia karroo
  39. Platypleura inglisi
  40. Platypleura instabilis
  41. Platypleura intermedia
  42. Platypleura kabindana
  43. Platypleura kenyana
  44. Platypleura laticlavia Stål, 1858 – Northwest Province, Limpopo, Northern Cape, Botswana, Namibia
  45. Platypleura lindiana
  46. Platypleura lineatella
  47. Platypleura longirostris
  48. Platypleura lourensi
  49. Platypleura machadoi
  50. Platypleura mackinnoni
  51. Platypleura makaga
  52. Platypleura maytenophila Villet, 1987 – Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa on Maytenus heterophylla
  53. Platypleura mijburghi Villet, 1989a – Gauteng, Mpumalanga and Limpopo, South Africa on Maytenus heterophylla
  54. Platypleura minima
  55. Platypleura mira – Thailand
  56. Platypleura murchisoni Distant, 1905e – Mpumalanga
  57. Platypleura nigrosignata
  58. Platypleura octoguttata
  59. Platypleura parvula
  60. Platypleura pinheyi
  61. Platypleura plumosa – Eastern Cape, South Africa on Acacia karroo
  62. Platypleura polita
  63. Platypleura polydorus
  64. Platypleura poorvachala
  65. Platypleura punctigera Walker, 1850 – Kwazulu-Natal, Eastern Cape
  66. Platypleura rothschildi
  67. Platypleura semusta
  68. Platypleura signifera – Eastern Cape
  69. Platypleura sobrina Stål, 1866
  70. Platypleura stridula - type species – Western Cape, South Africa on Salix
  71. Platypleura takasagonazh Matsumura, 1917 – Taiwan
  72. Platypleura techowi Schumacher, 1913 – Northern Cape, Free State, North West Province, Limpopo and Mpumalanga
  73. Platypleura testacea
  74. Platypleura turneri – Western Cape
  75. Platypleura wahlbergi Stål, 1855 – Eastern Cape and Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa on Acacia karroo
  76. Platypleura watsoni – Thailand
  77. Platypleura westwoodi
  78. Platypleura witteana
Note:P. quadraticollis is now Oxypleura quadraticollis P. zuluensis is now ''Azanicada zuluensis''