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Platypleurini

tribe of insects

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ16988234 ↗
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The Platypleurini are a tribe of cicadas from the Afrotropical and Indomalayan realms. There are at least 240 described species in Platypleurini. The earliest member of the group is the fossil cicada Eoplatypleura, from the Eocene aged Messel Pit locality of Germany, which is also the oldest confirmed member of Cicadinae and one of the oldest Cicadids known from Eurasia.

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This entry incorporates text from “Platypleurini” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.