Karenia Distant

Thai, Pham Hong & Yang, Jeng-Tze, 2012, First record of the cicada genus Karenia Distant, 1888 (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) from Vietnam, with description of a new species, Zootaxa 3153, pp. 32-38 : 33

Genus Karenia Distant

Karenia Distant, 1888: 457 ; Distant, 1890: 91; Distant, 1892: 126; Distant, 1906: 160; Chen, 1933: 36; Chou et al., 1997: 37; Wei et al., 2009: 338.

Sinosena Chen, 1943: 45; Boulard, 1975: 2.

Type species: Karenia ravida Distant, 1888 .

Diagnosis. Head (including eyes) narrower than base of mesonotum, dorsally with median black mark enclosing ocelli; pronotum including pronotal collar distinctly wider than head, anterolateral margin of pronotal collar with small but distinct tooth, pronotum with pair of central fasciae, connected near pronotal collar; mesonotum slightly narrower than pronotal collar, with six black fasciae; pair of submedian sigilla, pair of lateral sigilla, and pair of spots in front of anterior angles of cruciform elevation; cruciform elevation elongate. Postclypeus fairly strongly produced; rostrum extending slightly beyond posterior trochanter. Forewing and hind wing hyaline; forewing with infuscations on r, r-m, m, m-cu, and CuA2, also distinctly or slightly spotted on apices of RA2, RP, M1, M2, M3, M4, and CuA1; timbal organs absent; male opercula widely separated, a bit elongated, reaching to half length or two thirds of abdominal sternite III. Anterior femora usually with two distinct spines and very small distal spine; lateral pygofer lobe broadly rounded apically; basal part of uncus large and distinctly expanded laterally; apical part of uncal lobe with lateral spine.

Distribution: northern Vietnam; central and southern China; Burma.