Purana Distant, 1905

Pham, Hong-Thai, Schouten, Marieke & Yang, Jeng-Tze, 2012, A new cicada species of the genus Purana Distant, 1905 (Hemiptera: Cicadidae), with a key to the Purana species from Vietnam, Zootaxa 3580, pp. 83-88 : 84

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.283058
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6167254
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scientific name	Purana Distant, 1905
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Genus Purana Distant, 1905 View in CoL

Purana Distant, 1905a: 60 View in CoL . Type species: Dundubia tigrina Walker, 1850 (Malabar) View in CoL .

Formosemia Matsumura, 1917: 193 View in CoL . Type species: Leptopsaltria apicalis Matsumura, 1907 ( Formosa) View in CoL .

Diagnosis. Head including eyes as wide as mesonotum and as long as space between eyes; postclypeus prominent and convex, its base almost at right angles to anterior lateral angles of vertex; pronotum narrowed anteriorly, its lateral margins angulated or toothed; mesonotum much longer than pronotum; male abdomen moderately conical above, gradually attenuated posteriorly, longer than space between apex of head and base of cruciform elevation; tubercles on sternites 3 and 4 large and prominent; male opercula broader at base than long; rostrum reaching or a little passing posterior coxae; fore and hind wings hyaline.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hemiptera
Family	Cicadidae