Cicadinae

Cicadinae
Cicada orni imago (Cicadini)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Infraorder: Cicadomorpha
Superfamily: Cicadoidea
Family: Cicadidae
Subfamily: Cicadinae
Diversity
12–15 tribes (but see text)

The Cicadinae are a subfamily of cicadas, containing the translucent cicadas. They are robust cicadas and many have gaudy colors, but they generally lack the butterfly-like opaque wing markings found in many species of the related Tibiceninae.

Systematics

Exuvia of Lyristes plebejus nymph (Lyristini)

This large subfamily is here divided into tribes. Other schemes exist, which usually have a coarser subdivision. Some, however, merge the Tibiceninae here whole or partly. The unrevised list given below was substantially revised beginning in 2010 due to additional morphological and molecular phylogenetic analysis.[1][2]

The tribes, with some notable genera, are:

Burbungini

Cicadatrini (sometimes in Cicadini)

  • Cicadatra
  • Psalmocharias

Cicadini

Cyclochilini

Dundubiini

Fidicinini

  • Dorisiana
  • Fidicina
  • Fidicinoides
  • Ollanta
  • Proarna

Gaeanini

Hyantiini

Jassopsaltriini

Tibiceninae / Lyristini

Moganniini

  • Mogannia

Oncotympanini (disputed)

  • Oncotympana

Platypleurini

Pomponiini

Tacuini

  • Tacua

Talcopsaltriini (disputed)

Tamasini

Thophini

References

  1. ↑ Lee, Young June and Hill, Kathy B. R. (2010). "Systematic revision of the genus Psithyristria Stål (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) with seven new species and a molecular phylogeny of the genus and higher taxa". Systematic Entomology 35 (2): 277–305. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2009.00509.x.
  2. ↑ Lee, Young June (2012). "Descriptions of two new genera and species of Cicadidae (Hemiptera) from India with some notes on tribal classification". Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 59 (2): 225–231. doi:10.1002/mmnd.201200018.

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