Purana Distant, 1905

Lee, Young June, Marshall, David C., Mohagan, Alma B., Hill, Kathy B. R. & Mohagan, Dave P., 2023, Revised checklist of Cicadidae (Insecta: Hemiptera) of Mindanao, Philippines, with descriptions of a new genus and nine new species, Journal of Natural History 57 (1 - 4), pp. 193-242 : 222

Genus Purana Distant, 1905

Remarks

The Purana carmente species group was proposed by Schouten and Duffels (2002), of which 16 member species have been found so far in southern China, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines. The independence of the Purana carmente species group was also brought up by Lee (2009b). The new Purana species described below belongs to this species group.

Two of the other Purana species of Mindanao, Purana nana Lee, 2009 and Purana crassinotata Lee, 2015 , are included in the Purana abdominalis species group proposed by Lee (2009a).

Lee (2009a) suggested Purana guttularis (Walker, 1858) be placed in the Purana ubina species group, but no male specimens have been confirmed. Its type specimen, which is a female, seems close to Purana kpaworensis Boulard, 2007 , which was placed in the Purana tigrina species group by Lee (2009a), considering the similarities in fore wing venation. However, the species group placements of P. guttularis and P. kpaworensis need further study.