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Taxa named by Charles Jean-Baptiste Amyot

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Veliidae
Veliidae is a family of gregarious predatory insects in the suborder Heteroptera. They are commonly known as riffle bugs, small water striders, or broad-shouldered water striders because the segment immediately behind the head is wider than the rest of the abdomen. Species of the genus Rhagovelia are also referred to as ripple bugs.
Nezara
Nezara is a genus of plant-feeding stink bug of the family Pentatomidae, first described by Charles Jean-Baptiste Amyot & Jean Guillaume Audinet-Serville in 1843.
Zicrona
Zicrona is a genus of bugs of the family Pentatomidae. It was circumscribed by Charles Jean-Baptiste Amyot and Jean Guillaume Audinet-Serville
Hoplothrips
Hoplothrips is a genus of thrips in the family Phlaeothripidae, first described in 1843 by Charles Jean-Baptiste Amyot & Jean Guillaume Audinet-Serville. The type species is Thrips corticis DeGeer, 1773.
Appasus
Appasus is a genus of giant water bugs (family Belostomatidae) found in freshwater habitats in Asia and Africa.
Brochymena
thumb thumb|Brochymena in its natural habitat
Pycna
Pycna is a genus of cicadas in the tribe Platypleurini, from Madagascar.
Platypleura
thumb|Platypleura hilpa Platypleura is a genus of cicadas, occurring widely across Africa and southern Asia; it is the type genus of the tribe Platypleurini and species previously included here are now placed in other similar genera, such as Planopleura and Dyticopycna.
Tosena
Tosena (from ) is a genus of cicadas from South-East Asia. Species formerly included in Tosena are Distantalna splendida, Formotosena montivaga, Formotosena seebohmi, Trengganua sibylla and two species now placed in Vittagaeana, with Tosena the only genus of tribe Tosenini.
Oxypleura
Oxypleura is a genus of Asian cicadas in the tribe Platypleurini, erected by Charles Jean-Baptiste Amyot and Jean Guillaume Audinet-Serville in 1843; they named it from the Greek: οξύς (sharp) and pleura (πλευρά). Species distribution records include: Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, India, Indochina and Australia.
Thopha
Thopha (from ) is a genus of cicadas native to Australia. They are also known as double drummers. Genetic and morphological data show that Thopha is closely related to the genus Arunta; together they comprise the tribe Thophini.
Oeda
Oeda is a genus of treehoppers belonging to the subfamily Stegaspidinae in the family Membracidae. It contains 5 species in two subgenera, Oeda (Oeda) and Oeda (Oedacanthus).