Purana (genus)

Purana
Purana cf. morrisi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Family: Cicadidae
Genus: Purana
Distant, 1905
Species

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Purana is a genus of cicadas from Southeast Asia. Its distribution includes Java, Sumatra, Borneo, The Philippines, peninsular Malaysia, Thailand, India, Indochina, China, and Japan. Only one species has been recorded east of the Wallace Line, Purana celebensis, from Sulawesi.[1] In all species the male possess two pairs of dark ventral abdominal tubercles on third and fourth sternites. The male opercula are rather short and generally do not reach beyond the posterior pair of tubercles. Related genera that also possess abdominal tubercles are Leptopsaltria, Maua, Nabalua and Tanna which together with Purana are in the subtribe Leptopsaltriina of the tribe Cicadini.[2]

List of species

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References

  1. Kos, Martijn & Gogala, Matija (2000). "The cicadas of the Purana nebulilinea group (Homoptera, Cicadidae) with a note on their songs" (PDF). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie. 143 (1): 126. Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 July 2011.
  2. Lee, Young June & Hill, Kathy B. R. (2010). "Systematic revision of the genus Psithyristria Stål (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) with seven new species and a molecular phylogeny of the genus and higher taxa". Systematic Entomology. 35 (2): 277305. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2009.00509.x.
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