Vietanna

Vietanna
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Family: Cicadidae
Tribe: Leptopsaltriini
Subtribe: Leptopsaltriina
Genus: Vietanna
Lee & Pham, 2021
Synonyms

Duffelsa Wang, Jiang & Wei, 2023

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Vietanna is a genus of Asian cicadas in the tribe Leptopsaltriini (subtribe Leptopsaltriina), erected by Young June Lee and Hong Thai Pham in 2021; they named it after Vietnam and the similar genus Tanna. Species have been recorded from China and Indochina.

Species

The World Auchenorrhyncha Database includes:

  1. Vietanna grandia (Wang, Jiang & Wei, 2023)
  2. Vietanna hanoiensis Pham & Lee, 2021 - type species
  3. Vietanna longiloba Wang, Feng, Jiang & Wei, 2024
  4. Vietanna orientalis (Distant, 1912)
  5. Vietanna parvula (Wang, Jiang & Wei, 2023)
  6. Vietanna perparva Wang, Feng, Jiang & Wei, 2024
  7. Vietanna rubida (Wang, Jiang & Wei, 2023)

References

  1. ↑ Lee YJ (2023) Circumscription of the genus Vietanna Lee & Pham, 2021 (Cicadidae: Leptopsaltriini) resulting in the synonymy of Duffelsa Wang et al., 2023. Zootaxa, 5361(2), 292–296. DOI
  2. ↑ In: Pham H-T, Lee YJ (2021) A new genus and species of the subtribe Leptopsaltriina (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Leptopsaltriini) from Vietnam, with a key to the genera of Leptopsaltriina. Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology, 24(2021), 1202–1205. DOI p: 1203.
  3. 1 2 World Auchenorrhyncha Database: genus Vietanna Lee & Pham, 2021 (retrieved 6 June 2025)