Dyticopycna

Dyticopycna
Dyticopycna semiclara showing features
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Family: Cicadidae
Subfamily: Cicadinae
Tribe: Platypleurini
Genus: Dyticopycna
Sanborn, 2020
Synonyms

Pycnoides Sanborn, 2020

Dyticopycna is a genus of mainland African cicadas in the tribe Platypleurini, erected by Allen Sanborn in 2020; he named it from the Greek: δυτικός (western) and the similar genus Pycna (now only containing species from Madagascar), where several species were placed before the revision. At least four species have also been moved here from Platypleura.

Species distribution records are from Sub-Saharan Africa: especially the West and South of the continent.

Species

The World Auchenorrhyncha Database includes:

  1. Dyticopycna antinorii (Lethierry, 1881)
  2. Dyticopycna baxteri (Distant, 1914)
  3. Dyticopycna beccarii (Lethierry, 1881)
  4. Dyticopycna dolosa (Boulard, 1975)
  5. Dyticopycna hecuba (Distant, 1904)
  6. Dyticopycna moniquae (Boulard, 2012)
  7. Dyticopycna natalensis (Distant, 1905)
  8. Dyticopycna neavei (Distant, 1912)
  9. Dyticopycna passosdecarvalhoi (Boulard, 1975)
  10. Dyticopycna quanza (Distant, 1899)
  11. Dyticopycna semiclara (Germar, 1834) – type species (as Cicada semiclara Germar and original designation of Dyticopycna Sanborn)
  12. Dyticopycna sylvia (Distant, 1899)
  13. Dyticopycna umbelinae (Boulard, 1975)
  14. Dyticopycna vitrea (Schumacher, 1913)
  15. Dyticopycna vitticollis (Jacobi, 1904)
  16. Dyticopycna zambiaensis (Sanborn, 2020)

References

  1. ↑ Sanborn AF (2020) Replacement name for the cicada genus Pycnoides Sanborn, 2020 (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadinae: Platypleurini) and sixteen new combinations. Zootaxa, 4759(4), 591–592. DOI
  2. ↑ Sanborn AF (2020) Redescription of the cicada genus Pycna Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843 (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadinae: Platypleurini) with the formation of two new genera, one new species, one revised species status and twenty-four new combinations. Zootaxa, 4722(2), 157-174. DOI
  3. 1 2 3 4 World Auchenorrhyncha Database: genus Dyticopycna Sanborn, 2020 (retrieved 14 June 2025)