Tibicen

Tibicen is a former genus name in the insect family Cicadidae (order Hemiptera) that was originally published by P. A. Latreille in 1825[1] and formally made available in a translation by A.

[5] Usage increased in the early 1900s when influential authors such as G. W. Kirkaldy and E. P. Van Duzee began applying the name to a group of prominent North American cicadas currently in the subfamily Cicadinae and tribe Cryptotympanini.

In 1984, Melville and Sims petitioned the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature to alleviate the longstanding confusion within cicada taxonomy by suppressing the generic name Tibicen Berthold, 1827 for the purposes of the Principle of Priority (Case 239).

[3] This decision was facilitated by the prior removal to new genera of all formerly Tibicen species from Asia and the Americas, prompted in part by new molecular genetic data.

[14][15][16][17] Because related cicadas in the European species group were already included under Lyristes by many authors, suppression of the name Tibicen also conserved current usage.

Latreille, 1825, front page
First literature reference to genus Tibicen , in Latreille, 1825, p. 426
Lyristes plebejus (Scopoli, 1763), a European cicada regarded as the type species of the former genus Tibicen
Neotibicen canicularis , the " Dog-day cicada " of North America and the type species of the genus Neotibicen . Until 2015, this species was included in genus Tibicen