Talainga is a genus of Asian cicadas in the tribe Gaeanini, erected by William Lucas Distant in 1890.[1] Species have been recorded from Bangladesh, China and Indochina.[2]

Talainga
Talainga binghami
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Family: Cicadidae
Subfamily: Cicadinae
Tribe: Gaeanini
Genus: Talainga
Distant, 1890
Synonyms

Talinga Distant, 1890

Species

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The World Auchenorrhyncha Database (WAD)[3] includes:

  1. Talainga binghami Distant, 1890 type species (synonyms: T. chinensis Distant, 1900, T. omeishana Chen, 1957)
  2. Talainga naga Ollenbach, 1928

Note: Talainga japrona Ollenbach, 1928 is now Paratalainga distanti (Jacobi, 1902)

References

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  1. Distant WL (1890) Descriptions of a new genus of Oriental Cicadidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History London. (Ser. 6)., 5, 166–167.
  2. Global Biodiversity Information Facility: Talainga Distant, 1890 (retrieved 11 May 2025)
  3. World Auchenorrhyncha Database (WAD): genus Talainga Distant, 1890
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