Sinosemia
| Sinosemia | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Auchenorrhyncha |
| Family: | Cicadidae |
| Subfamily: | Cicadinae |
| Tribe: | Dundubiini |
| Subtribe: | Aolina |
| Genus: | Matsumura, 1927 |
| Species: | S. shirakii
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| Binomial name | |
| Sinosemia shirakii Matsumura, 1927
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Sinosemia is a monotypic genus of Asian cicadas in the tribe Dundubiini (subtribe Aolina);[1] it was originally erected by Shōnen Matsumura in 1927,[2] but the single species has also been placed in the similar genera Cryptotympana and Haphsa,[3] before this genus was restored in 2025.[4] Matsumura named it after China (Latin: Sina), the Japanese: 蝉 (pronounced 'semi' meaning cicada and the suffix '-a', with the species Sinosemia shirakii.
Distribution
S. shirakii has been recorded from Taiyuan and Hainan in China, Taiwan and central Vietnam.[5][1]
References
- ^ a b c World Auchenorrhyncha Database: genus Sinosemia Matsumura, 1927 (retrieved 15 June 2025)
- ^ Matsumura S (1927) New species of Cicadidae from the Japanese Empire. Insecta Matsumurana, 2, 46–58.
- ^ Wang S, Peng X, Wei C (2021) A review of the cicada genus Haphsa Distant, 1905 with the description of one new species from China (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) and a phylogenetic analysis of Haphsa and its allies. Zootaxa, 4991(3), 523–538. DOI
- ^ Lee YJ (2025) A new species of Haphsa Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) from Northern Thailand, with a taxonomic review of Haphsa and its allied genera. Journal of Natural History, 59(13–16), 1049–1061. DOI: p. 1054
- ^ Pham HT, Ta H-T (2006) [Study on the composition and distribution of the cicadas (Cicadidae, Homoptera) length across Ho Chi Minh highway from Quangtri, Thuathien-Hue and Quangnam provinces.]. Proceedings of the Scientific Conference on Forward to Agronomy Management Technology for Development of Sustainable Agriculture in Vietnam, Hanoi Agricultural University, 10 October 2006: 524–528. (In Vietnamese, English summary), 2006, 524–528.