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Purana
Purana is a genus of cicadas from Southeast Asia. Its distribution includes Java, Sumatra, Borneo, the Philippines, peninsular Malaysia, Thailand, India, Indochina, China, and Japan. Only one species has been recorded east of the Wallace Line, Purana celebensis, from Sulawesi. In all species the male possess two pairs of dark ventral abdominal tubercles on third and fourth sternites. The male opercula are rather short and generally do not reach beyond the posterior pair of tubercles. Related...
22 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Purana usnani
speciesPurana usnani

Purana ubina
speciesPurana ubina

Purana gigas
speciesPurana gigas

Purana guttularis
speciesPurana guttularis

Purana tigrinaformis
speciesPurana tigrinaformis

Purana tigrina
speciesPurana tigrina

Purana khaosokensis
speciesPurana khaosokensis

Purana metallica
speciesPurana metallica

Purana kpaworensis
speciesPurana kpaworensis

Purana carolettae
speciesPurana carolettae

Purana conspicua
speciesPurana conspicua

Purana ptorti
speciesPurana ptorti
Purana johanae
speciesPurana johanae

Purana tripunctata
speciesPurana tripunctata

Purana doiluangensis
speciesPurana doiluangensis
Purana karimunjawa
speciesPurana karimunjawa
Purana latifascia
speciesPurana latifascia
Purana mulu
speciesPurana mulu
Purana bakeri
speciesPurana bakeri
Purana campanula
speciesPurana campanula
Purana gemella
speciesPurana gemella
Purana jdmoorei
speciesPurana jdmoorei
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 332479.