Paranosia

Paranosia
Paranosia abdullah
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Family: Cicadidae
Tribe: Leptopsaltriini
Subtribe: Euterpnosiina
Genus: Paranosia
Lee, 2014

Paranosia is a genus of Asian cicadas in the tribe Leptopsaltriini (subtribe Euterpnosiina), erected by Young June Lee in 2014; he named it from the Greek: παρά (near) and the similar genus Terpnosia.

Species distribution records include: India, the Himalayas, China, Indochina and western Malesia.

Species

The World Auchenorrhyncha Database includes:

  1. Paranosia abdullah (Distant, 1904)
  2. Paranosia andersoni (Distant, 1892) - type species (by original designation of Paranosia Lee, 2014)
  3. Paranosia clio (Walker, 1850)
  4. Paranosia himachalensis Saddam, Wang & Kumar, 2025
  5. Paranosia nonusaprilis (Boulard, 2003)

References

  1. ↑ Lee YJ (2014) Cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Laos, with the description of four new genera and two new species. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 50(1), 59–81.
  2. 1 2 World Auchenorrhyncha Database: genus Paranosia Lee, 2014 (retrieved 12 June 2025)