Nipponosemia virescens Kato, 1926

Yang, Mingsheng & Wei, Cong, 2013, On the cicada genus Nipponosemia Kato, with description of one new species from China (Hemiptera, Cicadidae), ZooKeys 293, pp. 19-39 : 32

Nipponosemia virescens Kato, 1926

Nipponosemia virescens Kato, 1926: 172; Hayashi 1979: 262; Duffels and van der Laan 1985: 164; Chou et al. 1997: 125; Lee and Hayashi 2004: 62.

Material examined.

No specimen available.

Biology.

This species is found in lowlands. Adults appear from April to July and both sexes are attracted to electric light at night ( Lee and Hayashi 2004).

Distribution.

China (Taiwan).

Remarks.

Chou et al. (1997) incorrectly recorded this species from Japan. Considering the morphological similarity between this species and Nipponosemia terminalis , Lee and Hayashi (2004) suggested that they may represent one species and Nipponosemia virescens should be a kind of geographical variation within Nipponosemia terminalis , and the identity of this species needs to be confirmed when material becomes available. We included this species in the key in this paper according to the photograph provided by Lee and Hayashi (2004).