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Genus Platypedia

cicada? - Platypedia putnami Cicada from Black Hills, SD - Platypedia putnami Platypedia barbata - male A small cicada - Platypedia cicada2 - Platypedia Platypedia minor Mystery molting - Platypedia Mystery molting - Platypedia
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)
Suborder Auchenorrhyncha (Free-living Hemipterans)
Superfamily Cicadoidea
Family Cicadidae (Cicadas)
Subfamily Tibicininae
Genus Platypedia
Numbers
Nearctica.com lists 24 North American species in this genus.