Tanna (cicada)

Tanna
Tanna japonensis (Female)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Family: Cicadidae
Subfamily: Cicadinae
Tribe: Leptopsaltriini
Genus: Tanna
Distant, 1905

Tanna is a genus of cicadas from Southeast Asia and East Asia.[1][2] In 2010 Lee and Hill placed Tanna in the subtribe Leptopsaltriina, which is now in the tribe Leptopsaltriini together with a number of related genera that also possess abdominal tubercles, including Leptopsaltria, Maua, Nabalua, Purana, and others.[3]

  1. ^ Metcalf, Z.P. 1963. General catalogue of the Homoptera. Fascicle VIII. Cicadoidea. Part 1. Cicadidae. Section I Tibiceninae: i-vii, 1-585. – North Carolina State College, Raleigh, North Carolina.
  2. ^ Lee, Young June & Hayashi, Masami (2004). "Taxonomic review of Cicadidae (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha) from Taiwan, part 3. Dundubiini (two other genera of Cicadina), Moganiini, and Huechysini with a new genus and two new species". Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology. 7 (1): 45–72. doi:10.1016/S1226-8615(08)60200-9.
  3. ^ Lee, Young June & 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.