Platybrachys is a genus of Australian Fulgoromorph planthoppers within the family Eurybrachidae.[1]

Platybrachys
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Infraorder: Fulgoromorpha
Family: Eurybrachidae
Tribe: Platybrachini
Genus: Platybrachys
Stål, 1859
Species

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Taxonomy

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Fulgoromorpha Lists on the Web[2] includes the following species:[1]

  1. Platybrachys aegrota Stål, 1863
  2. Platybrachys barbata (Fabricius, 1775)
  3. Platybrachys decemmacula (Walker, 1851)
  4. Platybrachys fenestrata Jacobi, 1928
  5. Platybrachys lanifera (Stål, 1854) - type species
  6. Platybrachys leucostigma (Walker, 1851)
  7. Platybrachys lugubris Stål, 1863
  8. Platybrachys lurida (Walker, 1851)
  9. Platybrachys maculipennis (Le Guillou, 1841)
  10. Platybrachys ornata (Lallemand, 1928)
  11. Platybrachys sera (Walker, 1851)
  12. Platybrachys sicca (Walker, 1851)
  13. Platybrachys vidua Stål, 1863

Kamabrachys gen. nov.

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In October 2023, Platybrachys signata Distant, 1892 was reassigned as the type species of the new genus Kamabrachys Constant.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Genus Platybrachys". GBIF. Retrieved 2023-01-13.
  2. ^ Fulgoromorpha Lists On the Web (FLOW): (retrieved 2 October 2023)
  3. ^ Constant J (2023) Revision of the Eurybrachidae (XVII). The new Australian genus Kamabrachys gen. nov. with ten new species (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha) European Journal of Taxonomy 895: 1-133. (Researchgate)
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