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Vittagaeana

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Vittagaeana
Vittagaeana paviei
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Family: Cicadidae
Subfamily: Cicadinae
Tribe: Gaeanini
Genus: Vittagaeana
Moulds, Sarkar, Lee & Marshall, 2021[1]

Vittagaeana is a genus of Asian cicadas in the tribe Gaeanini,[2] with species previously placed in Tosena moved by Hill et al. in 2021 within this "taxonomically unstable group of Asian cicada tribes".[3]

Species

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The World Auchenorrhyncha Database[2] includes:

  1. Vittagaeana dives (Westwood, 1842) – Bangladesh, Himalayas, Hainan Is.
  2. Vittagaeana paviei (Noualhier, 1896)type species – China, Indochina
Distant's illustration of V. dives

References

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  1. ^ Hill et al. (2021): p. 596
  2. ^ a b World Auchenorrhyncha Database: genus Vittagaeana Moulds, Sarkar, Lee & Marshall, 2021 (retrieved 15 May 2025)
  3. ^ Hill KBR, Marshall DC, Marathe K, Moulds MS, Lee YJ, Pham HT, Mohagan AB, Sarkar V, Price BW, Duffels JP, Schouten MA, de Boer AJ, Kunte K, Simon C (2021) The molecular systematics and diversification of a taxonomically unstable group of Asian cicada tribes related to Cicadini Latreille, 1802 (Hemiptera : Cicadidae). Invertebrate Systematics, 35, 570–601. DOI
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