Hyantiini, Sanborn, 2018

Sanborn, Allen F., 2018, Two new genera and two new species of cicadas from Central America (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadinae), Zootaxa 4418 (2), pp. 149-160 : 159

Key to the Hyantiini genera

Muraoides n. gen. is the fourth genus classified within the tribe Hyantiini along with Quesada Distant, 1905b (two species), Mura Distant, 1905c (one species), and Hyantia Stäl, 1866 (2 species).

1 Body length greater than 25 mm ........................................................................ 2

- Body length less than 25 mm ........................................................................... 3

2 Head including eyes narrower than base of mesonotum, space between pronotal dilations less than width of abdomen, lateral margins of pronotum rounded, basal cell of fore wing distinctly longer than broad, range from Texas to Argentina.......................................................................................... Quesada Distant, 1905b

- Head including eyes as wide as or wider than base of mesonotum, space between pronotal dilations equal to greatest width of abdomen, lateral margins of pronotum angulate, basal cell of fore wing twice as long as broad, known from Brazil and French Guiana............................................................................... Hyantia Stäl, 1866

3 Body length greater than 30 mm, head as wide as mesonotum, lateral pronotal margins strongly angulate, uncus narrowing from base, known from Panama.......................................................... Mura Distant, 1905c

- Body length less than 25 mm, head wider than mesonotum, lateral pronotal margins weakly angulate, posterior uncus as wide as uncus base, known from Costa Rica....................................................... Muraoides n. gen.