Hovanini Sanborn, Marshall & Moulds, 2020

Sanborn, Allen F., 2021, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae) of Madagascar including a new tribe, five new genera, twelve new species, four new species synonymies, five revised species status, ten new combinations, new tribal assignments for four genera, one new subtribe synonymy, a checklist and key to the species, Zootaxa 4937 (1), pp. 1-79 : 71

Tribe Hovanini Sanborn, Marshall & Moulds, 2020 (in Sanborn et al. 2020)

Hovanini Sanborn, Marshall & Moulds, 2020 (in Sanborn et al. 2020): 149.

Remarks.—The tribe was recently erected based on morphological differences and gene mapping from a group of leaf-like cicadas ( Sanborn et al. 2020). It was suggested that it is most closely related to the Malagasiini .