Psyrana Uvarov, 1940

Type species: Psyra melanonota Stål, 1876 .

Psyrana Uvarov, 1940, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (11) 6:117; Bey-Bienko, 1954, Fauna of the USSR, Vol.2, No. 2: 108. Psyra Stål, 1876, Oefv. Vet.-Akad. Forh. 33(3): 55; Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 28: 169, 170; Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1891, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 41: 13, 87; Kirby, 1906, Syn. Cat. Orth. 2: 427; Karny, 1906, J. Fed. Malay States Mus. 13(2-3): 99; Uvarov, 1940, Ann. Mag. NAT. Hist. (11) 6: 117; Bei-Bienko, 1954, Fauna of the USSR, Vol. 2, No. 2: 105.

Uvarov (1940) substituted Psyra for Psyrana, which was erected by Stål (1876), due to preoccupation. Subsequently, many authors (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878, 1891; Kirby, 1900; Fritze & Carl, 1908; Karny, 1920, 1923, 1931; Carl, 1921; Shiraki, 1930; Willemse, 1933, 1953; Ichikawa, 2001) described 22 species and 2 subspecies, among which 18 species were described from Oriental Region, 4 species and 2 subspecies were distributed in Japan. Recently there has been recorded one species Psyrana japonica Shiraki from Taiwan Island (Huang, 2004), and no other species from China mainland. In this paper, we describe two new species, one from China, another from Vietnam.

Description. Bei-Bienko (1954).