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and Madagascar, through India and south East Asia, to

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. The faunas of West Africa and Madagascar are distinctive, while those of southern and

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resemble the Asian group. Endothermy occurs in several large-bodied South American and South African species, but not in related small-bodied species.

List of species

*''Platypleura affinis'' (

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, 1803) *''Platypleura afzelii'' Stål, 1854 *''Platypleura albigera'' Walker, 1850 – Western Cape,

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*''Platypleura albivannata'' Hayashi, 1974 –

*''Platypleura andamana'' Distant, 1878 –

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*'' Platypleura arabica'' Myers, 1928 – United Arab Emirates *''Platypleura argentata'' Villet, 1987 –

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, South Africa *''Platypleura arminops'' ( Noualhier, 1896) – ThailandView Handout
/ref> *''Platypleura assamensis'' Atkinson, 1884 – Jalpaiguri *''Platypleura auropilosa'' ( Kato, 1940) – Thailand *''Platypleura basimacula'' Walker, 1850 –

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, Limpopo, Northwest Province, Free State, Mozambique, Zimbabwe *''Platypleura basi-viridis'' Walker, 1850 – India *''Platypleura bettoni'' Distant, 1904 *''Platypleura bombifrons'' Karsch, 1890 –

, Limpopo, Zimbabwe *''Platypleura brevis'' Walker, 1850 –

, Limpopo, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Malawi *''Platypleura brunea'' Villet, 1989a –

, South Africa *''Platypleura canescens'' Walker, 1870 – East Timor *''Platypleura capensis'' ( Linnaeus, 1764) – Western Cape and

, South Africa on ''

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'', ''

Brachylaena discolor ''Brachylaena discolor'' is a species of flowering plant in the aster family, Asteraceae. It is native to Africa, where it occurs in Mozambique, South Africa, and Eswatini.Olivier, 1790) *''Platypleura centralis'' Distant, 1897 *''Platypleura chalybaea'' Villet, 1989a –

, South Africa on '' Euphorbia triangularis'' *''Platypleura ciliaris'' ( Linnaeus,

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) *''Platypleura clara'' Amyot & Serville, 1843 *''Platypleura deusta'' ( Thunberg, 1822) –

and

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, South Africa on ''

Leucosidea sericea ''Leucosidea sericea'', commonly known as oldwood, is an evergreen tree or large shrub that grows in the highland regions of southern Africa. It is the sole species in the monotypic genus ''Leucosidea''. The name oldwood may reflect the fact that ...

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Platypleura divisa ''Platypleura divisa'' is an African cicada first described by Ernst Friedrich Germar, entomologist and professor of mineralogy at Halle, who also studied beetles. The genus ''Platypleura'' occurs widely across Africa and southern Asia. Some of ...

'' ( Germar, 1834) – Gauteng,

and

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Maytenus heterophylla ''Gymnosporia heterophylla'', the common spike-thorn, is a small, hardy, deciduous African tree up to 5m tall, occurring in rocky places with a wide distribution from Ethiopia, the Sudan and the Congo, south to the Cape Province and west to Ango ...

'' *''Platypleura fenestrata''

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, 1862ahttp://www.fcla.edu/FlaEnt/fe82p34.pdf *''Platypleura fulvigera'' ( Walker, 1850) *''Platypleura gowdeyi'' Distant, 1914 – South Africa on ''

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Platypleura haglundi ''Platypleura haglundi'' is a medium-sized African cicada species, that occurs from northern South Africa to Zimbabwe, where it is found in diverse habitats. In South Africa it has been recorded in North West, the northern Free State, Northern P ...

'' Stål, 1866 – Northwest Province, Free State, Limpopo, Gauteng,

and

, to Zimbabwe, Southern Africa on ''

Acacia karroo ''Vachellia karroo'', commonly known as the sweet thorn, common acacia, Karoo thorn, Cape gum or cockspur thorn, is a species of ''Vachellia'', native to southern Africa from southern Angola east to Mozambique, and south to South Africa. It is ...

'', ''

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'', '' Dichrostachys cinerea'' *''Platypleura hilpa'' ( Walker, 1850) *''Platypleura hirta'' Karsch, 1890 – Limpopo, Gauteng and

*''Platypleura hirtipennis'' ( Germar, 1834) –

, South Africa on ''

'' *''Platypleura kaempferi_{( ja)}'' (

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, Russia, Malaysia, Korean Peninsula, Taiwan. *''Platypleura kuroiwae'' Matsumura, 1917 –

*''Platypleura laticlavia'' Stål, 1858 – Northwest Province, Limpopo,

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, Botswana, Namibia *''Platypleura lindiana'' Distant, 1905 *''Platypleura lyricen''

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*''Platypleura machadoi'' Boulard, 1972 *''Platypleura marshalli'' Distant, 1897 *''Platypleura maytenophila'' Villet, 1987 –

, South Africa on ''

'' *'' Platypleura mijburghi'' Villet, 1989a – Gauteng,

and Limpopo, South Africa on ''

'' *''Platypleura mira'' (Distant, 1904) – Thailand *''Platypleura miyakona'' Matsumura, 1917 –

*''Platypleura murchisoni'' Distant, 1905e –

*''Platypleura nigrolinea'' (

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, 1773) = ''P. stridula'' *''Platypleura nobilis'' ( Germar, 1830) – Thailand *''Platypleura octoguttata'' (

, 1798) *'' Platypleura poorvachala'' (Marathe et al., 2017) *''Platypleura plumosa'' ( Germar, 1834) –

, South Africa on ''

'' *''Platypleura punctigera'' Walker, 1850 –

*''Platypleura quadraticollis''

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, 1874 –

, Limpopo, Botswana, Zimbabwe *''Platypleura rutherfordi'' Distant, 1883 *''Platypleura signifera'' Walker, 1850 –

*''Platypleura sobrina'' Stål, 1866 *''Platypleura stridula'' ( Linnaeus,

) – Western Cape, South Africa on '' Salix'' *'' Platypleura sylvia'' Distant, 1899 – Sekhukhuneland *''Platypleura takasagona''_zh Matsumura, 1917 – Taiwan *''Platypleura techowi'' Schumacher, 1913 –

, Free State, North West Province, Limpopo and

*''Platypleura turneri'' Boulard, 1975a – Western Cape *''Platypleura wahlbergi'' Stål, 1855 –

and

, South Africa on ''

'' *''Platypleura watsoni'' ( Distant, 1897) – Thailand *''Platypleura westwoodi'' Stål, 1863 *''Platypleura yayeyamana'' Matsumura, 1917 –

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, Western Cape,

References

External links

TaxonomyJapanese siteAn Appraisal of the Higher Classification of Cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea) with Special Reference to the Australian Fauna - M.S. Moulds
{{Taxonbar, from=Q1946093 Insects of Africa Cicadidae genera Taxa named by Jean Guillaume Audinet-Serville Taxa named by Charles Jean-Baptiste Amyot