Tacuina

The Tacuina (previously known as the Cryptotympanini^[1]) is a subtribe of cicadas in the subfamily Cicadinae. They are found in the Nearctic, Palearctic, Indomalaya, Oceania, and Afrotropics.^[2]

Tacuina
Cacama
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Auchenorrhyncha
Family:	Cicadidae
Tribe:	Tacuini
Subtribe:	Tacuina 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

Genera

The World Auchenorrhyncha Database^[2] includes the following:^[a]

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)^[b]
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

1. A number of living genera have been moved to other tribes; the fossil genus †Camuracicada Moulds, 2018^[3] is now placed incertae sedis in the Cicadidae.
2. "Lyristes" was a junior synonym of Tibicen Latreille, 1825 and this case is now confirmed.^[4]

Auritibicen bihamatus on Euonymus spp.