genus

Gaeana Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843

Gaeana Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843a: 463.
type species by original monotypy Cicada maculata Drury, 1773
Geana [sic] Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843 in Spinola, 1850a: 50.
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Gaena [sic] Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843 in Distant, 1888d: 454.
Gaena [sic] Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843 (misspelling of Gaeana Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843) in Distant, 1888d: 454.

Cicada maculata Drury, 1773 type species by original monotypy of Gaeana Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Sanskrit: gayana (act of singing)

Amyot, C.J.-B. & Audinet-Serville, J.G. (1843a) Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Hémiptères. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret. Paris, lxxvi + 676 pp. + 12 pls.
Distant, W.L. (1888d) Viaggio di Leonardo Fea in Birmania e regioni vicine. VIII. Enumeration of the Cicadidae collected by Mr. L. Fea in Burma and Tenasserim. Annali del Museo civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. (Ser. 2), 6, 453–459.

Kirby, W.F. (1885a) Hemiptera Homoptera. In Elementary text-book of entomology. W. Swan Sonnenschein & Co.. London. pp. pp. 208–214 + pls. 79–81. [viii + 241 pp. + 87 pls.]
Spinola, M. (1850a) Tavola sinottica dei generi spettanti alla classe degle insetti artroidignati, Flemiptera, Linn. Latr. -Rhyngota, Fab.-Rhynchota, Burm. Memorie della Società Italiana delle Scienze residente in Modena, 25(1), 1–60. [reprinted in 1852 with different page numbers]