Purapurana
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Auchenorrhyncha |
| Family: | Cicadidae |
| Tribe: | Leptopsaltriini |
| Subtribe: | Puranina |
| Genus: | Purapurana Lee, 2024 |
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Purapurana is a genus of Asian cicadas in the tribe Leptopsaltriini (subtribe Puranina), erected by Young June Lee in 2024.[1] This formed part of his review of the genus Purana and the prefix was simply the Latin adjective pura meaning pure. Species have been recorded from China, Indochina and Malesia.[2]
Species
[edit]The World Auchenorrhyncha Database[2] includes:
- Purapurana atroclunes (Boulard, 2002)
- Purapurana barbosae (Distant, 1889)
- Purapurana carmente (Walker, 1850) - type species (as Dundubia carmente Walker, 1850)
- Purapurana chueatae (Boulard, 2007)
- Purapurana dimidia (Chou & Lei, 1997)
- Purapurana hermes (Schouten & Duffels, 2002)
- Purapurana infuscata (Schouten & Duffels, 2002)
- Purapurana khuanae (Boulard, 2002)
- Purapurana mickhuanae (Boulard, 2009)
- Purapurana mindanaoensis (Lee & Marshall, 2023)
- Purapurana natae (Boulard, 2007)
- Purapurana obducta (Schouten & Duffels, 2002)
- Purapurana opaca (Lee, 2009)
- Purapurana phetchabuna (Boulard, 2008)
- Purapurana sagittata (Schouten & Duffels, 2002)
- Purapurana tanae (Boulard, 2007)
- Purapurana trui (Pham, Schouten & Yang, 2012)
- Purapurana vindevogheli (Boulard, 2008)
References
[edit]- ^ Lee, Young June (2024). "Redescription of Purana Distant resulting in four new genera of Puranina (Cicadidae, Leptopsaltriini)". Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity. 17 (3): 573–579 [574]. doi:10.1016/j.japb.2024.01.012.
- ^ a b World Auchenorrhyncha Database: genus Purapurana Lee, 2024 (retrieved 26 June 2025)