Yanga hova ( Distant, 1901 )

Sanborn, Allen F., 2021, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae) of Madagascar including a new tribe, five new genera, twelve new species, four new species synonymies, five revised species status, ten new combinations, new tribal assignments for four genera, one new subtribe synonymy, a checklist and key to the species, Zootaxa 4937 (1), pp. 1-79 : 12

Yanga hova ( Distant, 1901)

Platypleura hova Distant 1901: 591 . ( Madagascar)

Remarks.—The fourth of four species with the hind wings piceous or piceous-brown. It can be distinguished from Y. antiopa by the lighter apical area in the hid wings of that species, from the piceous hind wings with white lateral and posterior margins found in Y. heathi , and markings in the distal apical cells and the lack of piceous spots on the distal hind wing veins in Y. brancsiki . Body length is about 40 mm, wingspan is about 116 mm ( Distant 1901)

Distribution.—The species is only known from Madagascar ( Metcalf 1963a).