Purana Distant, 1905

Lee, Young June, 2015, Additional records of cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) to the fauna of Mindanao, Philippines, with the description of three new species and a key to the species of Champaka Distant, Zootaxa 4007 (4), pp. 545-556 : 551-553

Genus Purana Distant, 1905

14. Purana nana Lee, 2009

Purana nana: Lee, 2010a: 22 .

Additional material examined. 1 male, Mindanao, North Cotobato, Kidapawan, Ilumabis, northwestern slopes of Mt. Apo, 1939 m, 07°00.488’N 125°15.276’E, 5 VII 2010, Lita and family.

15. Purana crassinotata sp. nov. ( Fig. 2 )

Type material. Holotype: male ( Fig. 2 ), specimen code 10. PH.MN.IMP.01, Mindanao, Bukidnon, Impasugong, Impalutao, C.E.D.A.R. preserve, 811 m, 08°15.072’N 125°01.891’E, 7 VII 2010, K.B.R. Hill, D.C. Marshall, J. Jones, A. & D. Mohagan. Paratype: 1 male, specimen code 10. PH.MN.MAB.05, Mindanao, North Cotobato, Kidapawan, Ilumabis, base of Mt. Apo, northwestern side, 1192 m, 07°01.460’N 125°13.315’E, 10 VII 2010, Lita and family.

Etymology. The specific name is the feminine form of the Latin adjective meaning “having stout nota” in reference to the mesonotum of this species, which is substantially larger than Purana nana .

Measurements of types (n = 2 males). Median length of body: 23.1 (23.0–23.1). Median length of head and pronotum together: 5.0 (4.8–5.1). Median length of mesonotum (including cruciform elevation): 5.4 (5.2–5.6). Median length of head and thorax together: 10.4 (10.0–10.7). Median length of abdomen: 12.7 (12.3–13.1). Width of head including eyes: 6.9 (6.7–7.0).Width of mesonotum: 6.3 (6.3–6.3). Width of abdominal tergite 3: 7.3 (7.2– 7.4). Length of forewing: 29.1 (29.0–29.1). Width of forewing: 9.3 (9.3–9.3). Wing span: 64.4 (64.0–64.8).

Description of holotype, male ( Fig. 2 ). Head green with the following black marks: median mark surrounding ocelli, of which anterior tip not reaching frontoclypeal suture; a pair of small round spots on both sides of the median mark; a pair of small spots on supra-antennal plates; a pair of round spots on anterolateral corners of head; two pairs of tiny spots posteriorly. Distance between lateral ocelli and eyes more than twice as wide as the distance between lateral ocelli. Postclypeus much swollen. Antennae fuscous. Ventral part of head green to greenish ochraceous with black marks. Postclypeus with fasciae or spots along transverse grooves, with first five long but rest of them very short. Anteclypeus with a pair of paramedian longitudinal marks on about anterior half. Rostrum black apically; not reaching sternite II. Lorum with small marking on anterior apical part and small longitudinal mark along inner margin. Gena with a small spot between postclypeus and eye, nearer to postclypeus.

Thorax: Pronotum green to greenish ochraceous. Inner area of pronotum with the following black marks: a pair of median longitudinal fasciae broadened at both anterior and posterior ends; a pair of short, oblique brown branches along paramedian fissures arising from around middle of the median longitudinal fasciae; median transverse fascia along anterior margin of pronotum; a pair of oblique, slightly curved short fasciae between about middle of paramedian fissures and posterior ends of lateral fissures; a pair of fasciae along lateral fissures; a pair of curved fasciae along lateral margins of inner area. Pronotal collar with narrow transverse fascia along posterior margin. Anterolateral pronotal collar slightly developed and dentate. Mesonotum green to greenish ochraceous with the following black marks: median longitudinal fascia slightly broadened posteriorly to reach anterior margin of cruciform elevation; a pair of small round spots enclosing scutal depressions; a pair of inwardly curved fasciae along inner side of parapsidal sutures; three pairs of longitudinally arranged spots on lateral sigilla, with anteriormost one near to anterior margin of mesonotum. Cruciform elevation green to greenish ochraceous with median longitudinal black fascia, black subapices on arms, and black posterior margin. Thoracic sternites green to greenish ochraceous with a pair of black spots each on basisternum 2, episternum 2, and episternum 3. Legs green to greenish ochraceous. Fore-femur with black primary, secondary, and subapical spines and with black fascia along midline of ventral side of fore-femur. Apical one-third or half of fore- and mid-pretarsi black.

Wings hyaline. Forewing with distinct infuscations on radial and radiomedial crossveins. Small, roundish infuscation present on each hind margin of radius anterior 2, radius posterior, median 1–4, and cubitus anterior 1 veins, which are invisible in paratype. Basal cell slightly tinged with ochraceous. Basal membrane and hind wing jugum gray.

Operculum ( Fig. 2 C) green, covered with short white hairs and sparsely with white pollinosity and narrowly margined with black laterally; upside-down triangular with posterior angle rounded, and nearly reaching middle of sternite III. Anterior two-thirds of inner margin deeply concave. Two opercula widely apart from each other, with gap about half as wide as operculum.

Abdomen obconical, much longer than head and thorax together. Tergites 2–6 smoky ochraceous. Tergite 7 brown. Tergite 8 fuscous. Posterior margins of each tergite darker. Tergite 3 wider than mesonotum. Timbal cover dark ochraceous; nearly quarter round with rounded anterolateral corner, about as long as wide. Timbal concealed with timbal cover in dorsal view. Ventral part of abdomen slightly greenish ochraceous except sternite VII, castaneous. Sternites III and IV each with a pair of black tubercles on posterolateral surfaces, which protrude ventrolaterally but slightly obliquely downward.

Male genitalia ( Fig. 2 D, E): Pygofer elliptical but nearly spherical in ventral view. Uncus simple, short, not bifurcate, and with a widely truncate apex in ventral view; without deep median groove. Distal shoulder slightly extended distally and upcurved. Basal lobe of pygofer not prominent.

Remarks. This species very much resembles Purana nana but is distinguished by the following characters: median length of head and pronotum together shorter than mesonotum (including cruciform elevation) (longer in P. nana ); male operculum longer, reaching about anterior one-fourth of abdominal sternite III (shorter, extending just beyond abdominal sternite II in P. nana ); male abdomen tapering to apex, so more or less obconical (scarcely tapering to apex, so cylindrical in P. nana ); male pygofer much wider, nearly spherical (slender, elliptical in P. nana ) and also uncus wider.

16. Purana guttularis (Walker, 1858)

Purana guttularis: Lee, 2010a: 22 .

Remarks. This species has been recorded from S. China (Guangdong), Philippines (including Mindanao), Indonesia (Borneo, Java, Sumatra, and Nias), Malaysia (Peninsular Malaysia and Sarawak), Thailand, Myanmar (type locality; including Tanintharyi), and E. India (including Assam). However, the records from the Philippines (cf. Stål, 1870; Endo & Hayashi, 1979), Indonesia, and Sarawak may have been based on misidentifications of species that resemble(s) P. guttularis . As for the records from the Philippines, it is highly probable that they were due to misidentifications of one or more species of the Purana abdominalis species group (cf. Lee, 2009a), which are widespread in the Philippines.

Figures

FIGURE 2. Purana crassinotata sp. nov., holotype, male, Mindanao. A. dorsal habitus. B. ventral habitus. C. ventral view of the pygofer. D. lateral view of the pygofer.