Tacuini

Tacuini
Tacua speciosa
Scientific classification Edit this 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. Most genera were placed previously in the tribe Cryptotympanini, with proposed synonomisation by Marshall et al. (2018); it was later confirmed that Tacuini was valid, having date priority.

Subtribes and selected genera

The World Auchenorrhyncha Database includes two monogeneric subtribes and the Tacuina:

Heteropsaltriina Distant, 1905
Nggelianina Boulard, 1979
Tacuina Distant, 1904

Worldwide (temperate and tropical) – synonym of Cryptotympanini Handlirsch, 1925; selected genera:

References

  1. ↑ Distant WL (1904) Rhynchotal notes. -- XXVI. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (Ser. 7), 14, 293–303.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ 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
  4. ↑ World Auchenorrhyncha Database: Tribe Tacuini Distant, 1904 (retrieved 19 May 2025)