Tacuina

Subtribe of true bugs


title: "Tacuina" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["cryptotympanini", "cicadinae", "insect-subtribes"] description: "Subtribe of true bugs" topic_path: "general/cryptotympanini" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacuina" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Subtribe of true bugs ::

| image = Cacama Albuquerque NM.JPG | image_caption = Cacama | image_upright = 0.8 | taxon = Tacuina | authority = Distant, 1904 | synonyms = * Cicdaria [sic] Handlirsch, 1925

  • Cryptotympanaria Handlirsch, 1925
  • Cryptotympanini Handlirsch, 1925
  • Lyristarini Gómez-Menor Ortega, 1957
  • Lyristinae Gómez-Menor, 1957
  • Lyristini Gómez-Menor, 1957
  • Rihanaria Moulton, 1923
  • Tacuarini [sic] Distant, 1904
  • Tacuini Distant, 1904
  • Tibicenaria Distant, 1889
  • Tibiceninae Distant, 1889

The Tacuina (previously known as the Cryptotympanini) is a subtribe of cicadas in the subfamily Cicadinae. They are found in the Nearctic, Palearctic, Indomalaya, Oceania, and Afrotropics.

Genera

The World Auchenorrhyncha Database includes the following:

  1. Auritibicen Lee, 2015
  2. Cacama Distant, 1904 (cactus dodgers)
  3. Chremistica Stål, 1870
  4. Cornuplura Davis, 1944
  5. Cryptotympana Stål, 1861
  6. Hadoa Moulds, 2015 (western annual cicadas)
  7. Lyristes Horváth, 1926 (synonym Tibicen)
  8. Megatibicen Sanborn & Heath, 2016
  9. Neotibicen Hill & Moulds, 2015 (annual or dogday cicadas)
  10. Raiateana Boulard, 1979
  11. Salvazana Distant, 1913 - monotypic S. mirabilis
  12. Tacua Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843

Note

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References

References

  1. [https://hoppers.speciesfile.org/otus/9174/overview World Auchenorrhyncha Database: Subtribe Tacuina Distant, 1904] (retrieved 20 May 2025)
  2. International Commission On Zoological Nomenclature, I.C.Z.N. (2021) Opinion 2475 (Case 239) – Tibicina Kolenati, 1857 and Lyristes Horvath, 1926 (Insecta, Hemiptera): usage conserved by the suppression of ''Tibicen'' Berthold, 1827; Cicada Linnaeus, 1758 (Insecta, Hemiptera): usage conserved by designation of ''Cicada orni'' Linnaeus, 1758 as the type species. ''The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature'', 78, 138–141.

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