Taphurini


Taphurini is a tribe of cicadas in the family Cicadidae, found in the neotropics. There are about 14 genera and at least 60 described species in Taphurini.
The genus Nelcyndana was described by Stål as the new subgenus Nelcynda of the genus Tibicen Latreille, 1825. The new subgenus was erected for Nelcynda tener, a species from the Philippines also described by Stål in the same paper. In 1905, Distant elevated Nelcynda to genus rank and added a new species, N. madagascariensis, to the genus. The new name Nelcyndana was proposed by Distant since Nelcynda Stål proved to be preoccupied by Nelcynda Walker, 1862 used in Lepidoptera.

Genera

These 14 genera belong to the tribe Taphurini:
Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net