Semia Matsumura, 1917

Pham, Hong-Thai, Hayashi, Masami & Yang, Jeng-Tze, 2012, First record of the cicada genus Semia Matsumura (Hemiptera, Cicadidae) from Vietnam, with the description of one new species and a key to species, ZooKeys 174, pp. 31-40 : 32-33

Genus Semia Matsumura, 1917

Semia Matsumura, 1917: 195. Type species: Leptopsaltria watanabei Matsumura, 1907 (Formosa).

Diagnosis.

Head nearly as wide as or slightly narrower than base of mesonotum; inner area of pronotum generally concolorous to outer dilatation; male abdomen cylindrical, much longer than distance from head to cruciform elevation and slightly widest across 4th abdominal segment and wider than base of mesonotum; male tymbal cover very small and semicircular, mostly exposing tymbal in dorsal view; male 8th abdominal tergum mostly covered with white powder; ovipositor not protruding beyond abdominal segment 9; male operculum scale-like, roundish, and not extending beyond 2nd abdominal sternum; wings hyaline; 6th apical cell of forewing about as long as or longer than twice of 5th apical cell in median length. Based on Lee and Hayashi (2003).

Distribution.

China, Taiwan, Vietnam (Fig. 5).

Remarks.

This genus is similar to Leptosemia , Terpnosia and Euterpnosia (see Introduction).