Purana (cicada)


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.

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 and Leptopsaltria, Nabalua and Tanna which are in the subtribe Leptopsaltriina.

Species

After various reviews, only the following Purana species are accepted:
  1. Purana bakeri
  2. Purana karimunjawa
  3. Purana latifascia
  4. Purana metallica
  5. Purana mulu
  6. Purana tigrina - type species
  7. Purana usnani
A substantial number of species have been moved to new genera such as Indopurana, Metapurana, Philipurana and Purapurana; in addition, others are currently placed incertae sedis in the subtribe Puranina. Amongst the latter, is a species recorded east of the Wallace Line: "Purana celebensis", from Sulawesi.
62 species names were previously placed here, also including:Purana abdominalis Purana atroclunes Purana australis Purana barbosae Purana campanula Purana capricornis Purana carmente Purana carolettae Purana celebensis Purana chueatae Purana conifacies Purana conspicua Purana crassinotata Purana davidi Purana dimidia Purana doiluangensis Purana gemella Purana gigas Purana guttularis Purana hermes Purana hirundo Purana infuscata Purana iwasakii Purana jacobsoni Purana jdmoorei Purana johanae Purana khaosokensis Purana khuanae Purana khuniensis Purana kpaworensis Purana mickhuanae Purana montana Purana morrisi Purana nana Purana natae Purana nebulilinea Purana niasica Purana notatissima Purana obducta Purana opaca Purana parvituberculata Purana phetchabuna Purana pigmentata Purana pryeri Purana ptorti Purana sagittata Purana taipinensis Purana tanae Purana tavoyana Purana tigrinaformis Purana tigroides Purana tripunctata Purana trui Purana ubina Purana vesperalba
  • ''Purana vindevogheli''