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
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
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 East 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

References

  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.
  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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