Platypleura haglundi is a medium-sized African cicada species, that occurs from northern South Africa to Zimbabwe, where it is found in diverse habitats.

[3] The species feeds on Acacia, Dichrostachys cinerea and Delonix regia.

As with other southern African cicadas, they would generally emerge later at more southerly latitudes, and usually after seasonal rains.

[1] It forms part of a southern African radiation in the Platypleura that started during the Miocene.

[2] A larger species of the southern African radiation, P. capensis, replaces it in the Cape fynbos regions.