Becquartina Kato, 1940

Sarkar, Vivek, Thangkhiew, Rodeson, Mahapatra, Cuckoo, Mohapatra, Pratyush P., Nair, Manoj V. & Hajong, Sudhanya R., 2024, Discovery of the cicada genus Becquartina Kato, 1940 (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadinae) in India with the description of a new species from Meghalaya, Zootaxa 5432 (1), pp. 96-108 : 98

Genus Becquartina Kato, 1940

Type species Gaeana electa Jacobi, 1902

Diagnosis: The genus Becquartina is very similar to Gaeana Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843 . As Kato (1940) described, it differs from Gaeana by having a head (including eyes) broader than the base of the mesonotum and the length is about half the distance between both eyes, apical area of the forewing longer compared to Gaeana with fourth apical areas nearly approaching the radial area unlike Gaeana ( Kato 1940 a, 1940 b). Boulard (2005, 2013) provided further characteristics of the genus viz. head as wide as mesonotum, eyes not protruding, short rostrum not extending beyond hind coxae, pronotum longer than head, lateral margin of pronotal collar widened, male opercula short with a small protective shell-like appearance, abdomen slightly longer than forebody and ending in a very short pygophorian cone, round timbal covers reduced and cover only a tiny part of timbal ( Boulard, 2013). Based on these characters the new species is described under the genus Becquartina .