The species of Cicadidae (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha) from Tay Nguyen area are provided. This records a total of 36 cicada species belonging to 20 genera, 3 subfamilies, three of which, such as Purana opaca Lee, 2009
Purana parvituberculata Kos & Gogala, 2000 and Tanna kimtaewooi Lee, 2010 are newly recorded for Vietnam
sixteen species, namely Cryptotympana nitidula Hayashi, 1987
Becquartina electa (Jacobi, 1902)
Semia spinosa Pham et al., 2012
Pomponia backanensis Pham & Yang, 2009
Haphsa scitula (Distant, 1888)
Haphsa bindusara (Distant, 1881)
.Macrosemia tonkiniana (Jacobi, 1905)
Platylomia malickyi Beuk, 1998
Platylomia operculata Distant, 1913
Dundubia hainanensis (Distant, 1901)
Dundubia spiculata Noualhier, 1896
Tosena splendida Distant, 1878
Mogannia caesar Jacobi, 1902
Mogannia ob/iqua Walker, 1858
Mogannia viridis (Signoret, 1847) and Katoa chlorotica Chou & Lu, 1997) are newly recorded for Tay Nguyen area. Specimens of Purana trui Pham et al., 2012 were recollected from the Ro Koi Commune, Sa Thay district, Kon Tum province in Tay Nguyen area. Information of the distribution of all known species is given.