The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Panama including the description of six new species, three new combinations, one new synonymy, and nine new records
Author
Sanborn, Allen F.
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-10-04
4493
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journal article
29291
10.11646/zootaxa.4493.1.1
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Genus
Mura
Distant, 1905a
Mura
Distant 1905a: 143
.
TYPE SPECIES.
Mura elegantula
Distant 1905a: 143
.
Remarks.
The genus was recently reassigned to the
Fidicinini
with the synonymy of the
Hyantiini
(
Marshall
et al.
2018
). Only
Mura
and
Quesada
in the Panamanian
Fidicinini
have small timbal covers that recurve at least partially and do not cover the timbal. Specimens of
Mura
can be distinguished from the species of
Quesada
by the much smaller body size (body lengths less than
25 mm
), a timbal cover that is recurved for its entire length without an anterior triangular extension, the basal cell of the fore wing is longer than broad, and the abdomen is longer than the distance between the anterior head and posterior cruciform elevation (
Distant 1905a
).
Distribution.
The genus is currently only known from
Panama
(
Metcalf 1963a
;
Sanborn 2013
).