Platypleura

Platypleura is a genus of cicadas that occurs widely across Africa and southern Asia. 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.[1]

Platypleura
Platypleura deusta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Family: Cicadidae
Tribe: Platypleurini
Genus: Platypleura
Amyot & Serville, 1843
Species

See text.

The Platypleurini are distributed from the Cape in South Africa, throughout sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar, through India and south-eastern Asia, to Japan.[2] 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.[3]

List of species
Platypleura mijburghi
  • Platypleura mira (Distant, 1904) – Thailand[5]
  • Platypleura miyakona Matsumura, 1917 – Japan
  • Platypleura murchisoni Distant, 1905e – Mpumalanga
  • Platypleura nigrolinea (De Geer, 1773) = P. stridula
  • Platypleura nobilis (Germar, 1830) – Thailand[5]
  • Platypleura octoguttata (Fabricius, 1798)
  • Platypleura poorvachala (Marathe et al., 2017)
  • Platypleura plumosa (Germar, 1834) – Eastern Cape, South Africa on Acacia karroo
  • Platypleura punctigera Walker, 1850 – Kwazulu-Natal, Eastern Cape
  • Platypleura quadraticollis Butler, 1874 – Mpumalanga, Limpopo, Botswana, Zimbabwe
  • Platypleura rutherfordi Distant, 1883
  • Platypleura signifera Walker, 1850 – Eastern Cape
  • Platypleura sobrina Stål, 1866
  • Platypleura stridula (Linnaeus, 1758) – Western Cape, South Africa on Salix
  • Platypleura sylvia Distant, 1899 – Sekhukhuneland
  • Platypleura takasagonazh Matsumura, 1917 – Taiwan
  • Platypleura techowi Schumacher, 1913 – Northern Cape, Free State, North West Province, Limpopo and Mpumalanga
  • Platypleura turneri Boulard, 1975a – Western Cape
  • Platypleura wahlbergi Stål, 1855 – Eastern Cape and Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa on Acacia karroo
  • Platypleura watsoni (Distant, 1897) – Thailand
  • Platypleura westwoodi Stål, 1863
  • Platypleura yayeyamana Matsumura, 1917 – Japan[8]
  • Platypleura zuluensis Villet, 1987 – Eastern Cape, Western Cape, Kwazulu-Natal

References
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  1. Sanborn, Allen F. (2003). "Hot-blooded singers: endothermy facilitates crepuscular signaling in African platypleurine cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Platypleura spp.)". Naturwissenschaften. 90 (7): 305–308. Bibcode:2003NW.....90..305S. doi:10.1007/s00114-003-0428-1. PMID 12883772. S2CID 9090814.
  2. "Platypleurini, cicadas". Archived from the original on 2007-06-29. Retrieved 2008-12-20.
  3. pers. comm. prof Martin Villet, Rhodes University
  4. Natural Emirates: Wildlife and Environment of the United Arab Emirates. 1996. ISBN 9781900724029.
  5. View Handout
  6. Platypleura basi-viridis (No common name) Archived 2013-12-30 at the Wayback Machine
  7. http://www.fcla.edu/FlaEnt/fe82p34.pdf
  8. ヤエヤマニイニイの写真
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