''Miniterpnosia'' 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 Euterpnosiina), erected by
Young June Lee in 2013;
[Lee YJ (2013) Description of a new genus, ''Miniterpnosia'' n. gen., and a new species of cicada (Hemiptera, Cicadidae, Cicadini, Leptopsaltriina) from Laos. ''Zoosystema'', 35(1), 5–10.] he named it from the Greek: μινύς (small) and the similar genus ''
Terpnosia
''Terpnosia'' is a genus of Asian cicadas in the tribe Leptopsaltriini (subtribe Leptopsaltriina), erected by William Lucas Distant in 1892;Distant WL. (1892) On some undescribed Cicadidae, with synonymical notes. ''Annals and Magazine of Natura ...
''.
Species distribution records are from central China, Laos and Vietnam.
[World Auchenorrhyncha Database: genus ''Miniterpnosia'' Lee, 2013]
(retrieved 12 June 2025)
Species
The ''World Auchenorrhyncha Database''
[ includes:
# '' Miniterpnosia chorus'' – type species - Vietnam
# '' Miniterpnosia mega''
]
References
External links
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Leptopsaltriini
Cicadidae genera
Hemiptera of Asia
Taxa described in 2013