Miniterpnosia
| Miniterpnosia | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Auchenorrhyncha |
| Family: | Cicadidae |
| Tribe: | Leptopsaltriini |
| Subtribe: | Euterpnosiina |
| Genus: | Miniterpnosia Lee, 2013 |
| External image | |
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Miniterpnosia is a genus of Asian cicadas in the tribe Leptopsaltriini (subtribe Euterpnosiina), erected by Young June Lee in 2013;[1] he named it from the Greek: μινύς (small) and the similar genus Terpnosia.
Species distribution records are from central China, Laos and Vietnam.[2]
Species
[edit]The World Auchenorrhyncha Database[2] includes:
- Miniterpnosia chorus Lee, 2013 – type species - Vietnam
- Miniterpnosia mega (Chou & Lei, 1997)
References
[edit]- ↑ Lee YJ (2013) Description of a new genus, Miniterpnosia n. gen., and a new species of cicada (Hemiptera, Cicadidae, Cicadini, Leptopsaltriina) from Laos. Zoosystema, 35(1), 5–10.
- 1 2 World Auchenorrhyncha Database: genus Miniterpnosia Lee, 2013 (retrieved 12 June 2025)