Mogannia Amyot & Serville, 1843

Chen, Xiao, Yang, Mingsheng & Wei, Cong, 2012, Review of the cicada genus Mogannia Amyot & Serville from China, with descriptions of three new species (Hemiptera: Cicadidae), Zootaxa 3568, pp. 1-35 : 2

Mogannia Amyot & Serville, 1843

Mogannia Amyot & Serville, 1843: 467 . Type species: Cicada conica Germar, 1830 . Cephaloxys Signoret, 1847: 294 . Type species: Cephaloxys viridis Signoret, 1847 .

Diagnosis. Body small. Head triangular in dorsal view, narrower than base of mesonotum, about as long as or slightly longer than pronotum; postclypeus protruding anteriorly, without transverse carinae; postclypeus and vertex forming a more or less bumpy surface in dorsal view. Pronotum nearly trapezoid in dorsal view, wider than head, symmetrically with two pair of oblique fissures, anterolateral margin not dentate, lateral angle of pronotal collar well developed. Abdomen moderately swollen, a little longer than distance from head to cruciform elevation; timbal cover small, partly covering timbal. Male operculum mostly enlarged subapically towards body center, not extending to posterior margin of sternite II, lateral margin oblique. Fore wing and hind wing with eight and six apical cells, respectively. Male pygofer with uncus very short and flat, not dominant; claspers separated from each other in ventral view, with median clasper process long and lateral clasper lobe rounded; prominent lobe-like process present at both sides of base of aedeagus (except in M. ruiliensis sp. n.); aedeagus cylindrical, long and slender, with five to eight spine-like processes apically and subapically.