Mura Distant, 1905a

Sanborn, Allen F., 2018, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Panama including the description of six new species, three new combinations, one new synonymy, and nine new records, Zootaxa 4493 (1), pp. 1-69 : 39

Genus Mura Distant, 1905a

Mura Distant 1905a: 143 .

TYPE SPECIES. Mura elegantula Distant 1905a: 143 .

Remarks. The genus was recently reassigned to the Fidicinini with the synonymy of the Hyantiini ( Marshall et al. 2018). Only Mura and Quesada in the Panamanian Fidicinini have small timbal covers that recurve at least partially and do not cover the timbal. Specimens of Mura can be distinguished from the species of Quesada by the much smaller body size (body lengths less than 25 mm), a timbal cover that is recurved for its entire length without an anterior triangular extension, the basal cell of the fore wing is longer than broad, and the abdomen is longer than the distance between the anterior head and posterior cruciform elevation ( Distant 1905a).

Distribution. The genus is currently only known from Panama ( Metcalf 1963a; Sanborn 2013).