Purana (cicada)

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Purana
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Purana tigrina , Kerala
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Family: Cicadidae
Subtribe: Puranina
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. [1]

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Description

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 of the tribe Leptopsaltriini that also possess abdominal tubercles are Maua (in the same subtribe) and Leptopsaltria , Nabalua and Tanna which are in the subtribe Leptopsaltriina. [2]

Species

After various reviews, only the following Purana species are accepted: [3]

  1. Purana bakeri (Moulton, 1923)
  2. Purana karimunjawa Duffels & Schouten, 2007
  3. Purana latifascia Duffels & Schouten, 2007
  4. Purana metallica Duffels & Schouten, 2007
  5. Purana mulu Duffels & Schouten, 2007
  6. Purana tigrina (Walker, 1850) - type species (as Dundubia tigrinaWalker: designation as PuranaDistant, 1905)
  7. Purana usnani Duffels & Schouten, 2007

A substantial number of species have been moved to new (2024) genera such as Indopurana , Metapurana , Philipurana and Purapurana ; in addition, others are currently (June 2025) placed incertae sedis in the subtribe Puranina Lee, 2013. [4] Amongst the latter, is a species recorded east of the Wallace Line: "Purana celebensis", from Sulawesi. [5]

62 species names were previously placed here, also including:

References

  1. ↑ "Purana". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
  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): 277–305. Bibcode:2010SysEn..35..277J. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2009.00509.x.
  3. ↑ World Auchenorrhyncha Database: genus Purana Distant, 1905 (retrieved 26 June 2025)
  4. ↑ Lee YJ (2024) Redescription of Purana Distant resulting in four new genera of Puranina (Cicadidae, Leptopsaltriini). Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity, 17(3), 573–579 DOI: p. 579.
  5. ↑ 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): 1–26. doi:10.1163/22119434-99900037. Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 July 2011.
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