Sinosemia is a monotypic genus of Asian cicadas in the tribe Dundubiini (subtribe Aolina); it was originally erected by Shōnen Matsumura in 1927,Matsumura S (1927) New species of Cicadidae from the Japanese Empire. Insecta Matsumurana, 2, 46–58. but the single species has also been placed in the similar genera Cryptotympana and Haphsa,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 before this genus was restored in 2025.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 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.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.World Auchenorrhyncha Database: genus Sinosemia Matsumura, 1927 (retrieved 15 June 2025)
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