The Platypleurini are a tribe of cicadas from the Afrotropical and Indomalayan realms. There are at least 240 described species in Platypleurini. The earliest member of the group is the fossil cicada Eoplatypleura, from the Eocene aged Messel Pit locality of Germany, which is also the oldest confirmed member of Cicadinae and one of the oldest Cicadids known from Eurasia.

Genera The following belong to the tribe Platypleurini:

Afzeliada Albanycada Attenuella Azanicada Brevisiana Canualna Capcicada Dyticopycna Eopycna Esada Hainanosemia Hamza Ioba Kalabita Karscheliana Koma Kongota Muansa Munza Neoplatypleura Orapa Oxypleura Planopleura Platypleura (synonym Tugelana ) Pycna Sadaka Sechellalna Severiana Soudaniella Strumosella Strumoseura Suisha Tigripleura Ugada Umjaba Yanga

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