Platypleura stridula (Linnaeus, 1758)

Price, Benjamin Wills, Allan, Elizabeth Louise, Marathe, Kiran, Sarkar, Vivek, Simon, Chris & Kunte, Krushnamegh, 2016, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, Nepal and Sri Lanka: an annotated provisional catalogue, regional checklist and bibliography, Biodiversity Data Journal 4, pp. 8051-8051 : 8051

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.4.e8051

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scientific name

Platypleura stridula (Linnaeus, 1758)
status

 

Platypleura stridula (Linnaeus, 1758)

Cicada stridula Linnaeus, 1758

Cicada catenata Drury, 1773

Cicada nigrolinea De Geer, 1773

Platypleura stridula var. a Stål, 1866

Materials

Type status: Lectotype. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; Taxon: scientificName: Platypleurastridula (Linnaeus, 1758); Location: continent: Asia; locality: Indiis ; Record Level: institutionCode: UUZM; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Distribution

[Metcalf, 1963] India; Cape of Good Hope; South Africa; Natal; Transvaal; Africa. [Sanborn, 2014] South Africa, Zambezi, Zambia, Australia.

Notes

Authority: Linnaeus 1758; Not from India: Type locality stated as "Indiis", which was reported as India in Metcalf (1963), however all other specimens have been collected from southern Africa.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadidae

Genus

Platypleura