''Aetanna'' is a genus of Asian
cicada
The cicadas () are a superfamily, the Cicadoidea, of insects in the order Hemiptera (true bugs). They are in the suborder Auchenorrhyncha, along with smaller jumping bugs such as leafhoppers and froghoppers. The superfamily is divided into two ...
s in the tribe
Leptopsaltriini
Leptopsaltriini is a tribe of cicadas in the family Cicadidae. There are at least 200 described species in Leptopsaltriini, found in the Palearctic, Nearctic, and Indomalaya.
Genera
The ''World Auchenorrhyncha Database'' includes the following ...
(subtribe Leptopsaltriina), erected by
Young June Lee in 2014;
[Lee YJ (2014) Cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Laos, with the description of four new genera and two new species. ''Annales de la Société Entomologique de France'', 50(1), 59–81.] he named it from the Korean: 애 (pronounced 'ae', meaning small or child) and the similar genus ''
Tanna''.
Species distribution records include: India including the
Andaman islands
The Andaman Islands () are an archipelago, made up of 200 islands, in the northeastern Indian Ocean about southwest off the coasts of Myanmar's Ayeyarwady Region. Together with the Nicobar Islands to their south, the Andamans serve as a mari ...
, China,
Indochina
Mainland Southeast Asia (historically known as Indochina and the Indochinese Peninsula) is the continental portion of Southeast Asia. It lies east of the Indian subcontinent and south of Mainland China and is bordered by the Indian Ocean to th ...
,
Malesia
Malesia is a biogeographical region straddling the Equator and the boundaries of the Indomalayan and Australasian realms. It is a phytogeographical floristic region in the Paleotropical kingdom. It was first recognized as a distinct region ...
through to
New Guinea
New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; , fossilized , also known as Papua or historically ) is the List of islands by area, world's second-largest island, with an area of . Located in Melanesia in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is ...
.
[World Auchenorrhyncha Database: genus ''Aetanna'' Lee, 2014]
(retrieved 12 June 2025)
Species
The ''World Auchenorrhyncha Database''
[ includes:
# '' Aetanna condyla''
# '' Aetanna curta''
# '' Aetanna minor''
# '' Aetanna pallidula'' – type species
# '' Aetanna shensiensis''
# '' Aetanna thalia''
# '' Aetanna tigroides''
# '' Aetanna ventrirosea''
# '' Aetanna yanni''
# '' Aetanna yunnanensis''
]
References
External links
{{Taxonbar, from=Q25398986
Leptopsaltriini
Cicadidae genera
Hemiptera of Asia
Taxa described in 2014