Oxypleura is a genus of Asian cicadas in the tribe Platypleurini, erected by Charles Jean-Baptiste Amyot and Jean Guillaume Audinet-Serville in 1843;Amyot CJ-B, Audinet-Serville, JG (1843) Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Hémiptères. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret. Paris, lxxvi + 676 pp. + 12 pls. they named it from the Greek: οξύς (sharp) and pleura (πλευρά). Species distribution records include: Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, India, Indochina and Australia.World Auchenorrhyncha Database: genus Oxypleura Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843 (retrieved 10 June 2025)
Species The World Auchenorrhyncha Database includes: Oxypleura atkinsoni Oxypleura basalis Oxypleura calypso - Christmas Island Cicada Oxypleura centralis Oxypleura clara - type species Oxypleura ethiopiensis Oxypleura lenihani Oxypleura pointeli Oxypleura quadraticollis Oxypleura spoerryae
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