Tacuini
| Tacuini | |
|---|---|
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| Tacua speciosa | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Auchenorrhyncha |
| Family: | Cicadidae |
| Subfamily: | Cicadinae |
| Tribe: | Tacuini Distant, 1904 |
The Tacuini are a tribe of cicadas, originally erected by William Lucas Distant in 1904.[1] Most genera were placed previously in the tribe Cryptotympanini, with proposed synonomisation by Marshall et al. (2018);[2] it was later confirmed that Tacuini was valid, having date priority.[3]
Subtribes and selected genera
[edit]The World Auchenorrhyncha Database[4] includes two monogeneric subtribes and the Tacuina:
- Heteropsaltriina Distant, 1905
- Heteropsaltria Jacobi, 1902 – Melanesia
- Nggelianina Boulard, 1979
- Tacuina Distant, 1904
Worldwide (temperate and tropical) – synonym of Cryptotympanini Handlirsch, 1925; selected genera:
- Cacama Distant, 1904
- Chremistica Stål, 1870
- Cryptotympana Stål, 1861
- Lyristes Horváth, 1926 (synonym of Tibicen)
- Megatibicen Sanborn & Heath, 2016
- Neotibicen Hill & Moulds, 2015
- Psaltoda Stal, 1861
- Tacua Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843 - type genus
References
[edit]- ↑ Distant WL (1904) Rhynchotal notes. -- XXVI. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (Ser. 7), 14, 293–303.
- ↑ Marshall, David C.; Moulds, Max; Hill, Kathy B. R.; Price, Benjamin W.; Wade, Elizabeth J.; Owen, Christopher L.; Goemans, Geert; Marathe, Kiran; Sarkar, Vivek; Cooley, John R.; Sanborn, Allen F.; Kunte, Krushnamegh; Villet, Martin H.; Simon, Chris (28 May 2018). "A molecular phylogeny of the cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) with a review of tribe and subfamily classification". Zootaxa. 4424 (1): 1–64 [p. 38]. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4424.1.1. PMID 30313477. S2CID 52976455.
- ↑ Dmitriev DA Sanborn AF (2023) Priority and the names of two cicada tribes (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadinae: Tacuini and Tettigomyiinae: Anopercalnini). Zootaxa, 5239(1), 145–146. DOI
- ↑ World Auchenorrhyncha Database: Tribe Tacuini Distant, 1904 (retrieved 19 May 2025)
External links
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Media related to Cryptotympanini at Wikimedia Commons
