Species

Cryptotympana vesta (Distant, 1904)

Descendants and synonyms

Cicada vesta Distant, 1904a: 673.
Syntype; male; BMNH(E) 1009384; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); India: Bombay, R.M. Dixon
Cryptotympana vesta (Distant, 1904) in Hayashi, 1987b: 65.

Distant, W.L. (1904a) Additions to a knowledge of the family Cicadidae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1904, 667–676.
Hayashi, M. (1987b) A revision of the genus Cryptotympana (Homoptera, Cicadidae). Part II. Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History, 7, 1–109.

Sanborn, A.F., Phillips, P.K. & Sites, R.W. (2007a) Biodiversity, biogeography, and bibliography of the cicadas of Thailand (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae). Zootaxa, 1413, 1–46.
Price, B.W., Allan, E.L., Marathe, K., Sarkar, V., Simon, C.M. & Kunte, K. (2016) The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, Nepal and Sri Lanka: an annotated provisional catalogue, regional checklist and bibliography. Biodiversity Data Journal, 4(e8051), 1–156. https://doi.org/10.3897/bdj.4.e8051

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

after Vesta, in Roman mythology, the virgin goddess of the hearth, home, and family

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
Taxon	Valid names
Rank	Extant	Fossil	Invalid	Total
Species	1	0	2	3