Plautilla (cicada)

Plautilla
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Auchenorrhyncha
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. "Plautilla". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-07-04.
3. 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. 4424 (1). Magnolia Press: 1–64. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4424.1.1. PMID   30313477.

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 (2): 166–239. doi: 10.3390/d5020166 .
• Van Duzee, E.P. (1915). "A preliminary review of the West coast Cicadidae". Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 23 (1): 21–44.