AOLINA Boulard, 2012

Lee, Young June, 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), pp. 1049-1061 : 1053-1054

Subtribe AOLINA Boulard, 2012

Diagnosis

Pronotal collar narrow posteriorly. Fore wing usually with infuscations on radial and radiomedial crossveins, with the exception of Meimuna sensu stricto which has none. Male operculum basically obconical or up-triangular, with length about or less than two times the width, with exceptions of Meimuna sensu stricto, a species group in Meimuna and Cantata . Male abdomen obconical. Uncus short and bifurcate. See also Lee and Emery (2014) and Pham and Lee (2021) for subtribal diagnosis.

Previous inclusions

By the actions of Wang et al. (2021), Aolina included nine genera: Biura Lee and Sanborn, 2015 , Cantata Lee and Pham, 2021 , Haphsa Distant, 1905 , Kaphsa Lee, 2012 , Khimbya Distant, 1905 , Meimuna Distant, 1905 , Sinapsaltria Kato, 1940 , Songga Lee, 2016 and Zaphsa Lee and Emery, 2014 .

Taxonomic changes in the present paper

Aola Distant, 1905 stat. rev., Changa Lee, 2016 stat. rev., Sinosemia Matsumura, 1927 stat. rev. and Sinotympana Lee, 2009a stat. rev. are resurrected from the junior synonymy with Haphsa .

Genera included after the revisions (13)

Aola Distant, 1905 stat. rev., Biura Lee and Sanborn, 2015 , Cantata Lee and Pham, 2021 , Changa Lee, 2016 stat. rev., Haphsa Distant, 1905 , Kaphsa Lee, 2012 , Khimbya Distant,

1905, Meimuna Distant, 1905 , Sinapsaltria Kato, 1940 , Sinosemia Matsumura, 1927 stat. rev., Sinotympana Lee, 2009 stat. rev., Songga Lee, 2016 and Zaphsa Lee and Emery, 2014 .

Five out of the above 13 genera, Aola , Changa , Haphsa , Sinosemia and Sinotympana are referred to here as the ‘ Haphsa -like genera’, which commonly have the following characteristics, different from other aoline genera: uncus short and broad, with uncal lobes fused at base, bifurcate distally; and basal lobes of pygofer absent.