Genus

Paranistria Metcalf, 1952

Descendants and synonyms

Tympanistria Stål, 1862: 619.
type species by original designation Tettigonia villosa Fabricius, 1781
Tympanistria Stål, 1862 (homonym of Tympanistria Reichenbach, 1853)

Paranistria Metcalf, 1952 (subjective synonym of Neomuda Distant, 1920) in Stephen, 2021: 91.
Paranistria Metcalf, 1952 (classified as Parnisaria Distant, 1905) in Sanborn, 2024: 13.

Stål, C. (1862) Genera nonnulla nova Cicadinorum. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, (4 série), 1(4), 613–622. [1861]
Metcalf, Z.P. (1952a) New names in the Homoptera. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 42, 226–231.

Stephen, R.D. (2021) Cicadas of southern Africa. An illustrated guide to known species. Suricata, 7, i-viii + 1–207.
Sanborn, A.F. (2024) Redescription of Carinetini Distant, 1905 (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadettinae) including a key to the genera, three new species, two new combinations, a new record and comments on the taxonomic position of the genus Paranistria Metcalf, 1952. Journal of Insect Biodiversity, 59(1), 11–32. https://doi.org/10.12976/jib/2024.59.1.2

type species by original designation of Paranistria Metcalf, 1952

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Greek: παρά (near) + Tympanistria

No descendants observations found