Plautilla (cicada)

Plautilla
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Hemiptera
Superfamily:Cicadoidea
Family:Cicadidae
Subfamily:Cicadinae
Tribe:Plautillini
Genus:Plautilla
Stål, 1865

Plautilla is a genus of cicadas in the family Cicadidae, found in the Neotropics. There are at least three described species in Plautilla.[1][2][3]

Plautilla is the only genus of the tribe Plautillini.

Species

These three species belong to the genus Plautilla:[2][3]

  • Plautilla hammondi Distant, 1914
  • Plautilla stalagmoptera Stål, 1865
  • Plautilla venedictoffae Boulard, 1978

References

  1. ↑ "Plautilla Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-07-04.
  2. 1 2 "Plautilla". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-07-04.
  3. 1 2 Marshall, David C.; Moulds, Max; Hill, Kathy B. R.; Price, Benjamin W.; et al. (2018). "A molecular phylogeny of the cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) with a review of tribe and subfamily classification". Zootaxa. Magnolia Press. 4424 (1). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4424.1.1.

Further reading

  • Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico (2nd ed.). CRC Press. ISBN 0-8493-0212-9.
  • Sanborn, A.F.; Phillips, P.K. (2013). "Biogeography of the Cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of North America, North of Mexico" (PDF). Diversity. 5: 166–239.
  • Van Duzee, E.P. (1915). "A preliminary review of the West coast Cicadidae". Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 23 (1): 21–44.


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