Haphsa dianensis Chou, Lei, Li, Lu & Yao, 1997

Wang, Xu, Yang, Mingsheng & Wei, Cong, 2015, A review of the cicada genus Haphsa Distant from China (Hemiptera: Cicadidae), Zootaxa 3957 (4), pp. 408-424 : 422

Haphsa dianensis Chou, Lei, Li, Lu & Yao, 1997

Haphsa dianensis Chou, Lei, Li, Lu & Yao, 1997: 237 .

Distribution. China (Yunnan); India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh.

Remarks. Chou et al. (1997) merely provided morphological descriptions, measurements and distribution for Haphsa dianensis when they established this species, but they neither provided illustrations/photographs nor assigned the type specimen(s) for this species. Chou et al. (1997) didn’t mention in which institute the materials (12 males and 2 females) they examined were deposited when they established this species. Although Chou et al. (1997) noted this species was widely distributed in Yunnan Province of China, India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, no detailed distribution information was provided. In our study, we checked collections of various institutes, including that of NWAFU, but found no related materials. To date, no specimens of Haphsa have been found as identical to H. dianensis , and it is difficult to get a conclusion which species of Haphsa is identical or closes to H. dianensis . Therefore, we don’t include this species in the key in this paper. The identity of this species needs to be addressed when more materials from related areas (i.e., southern China, India, Sri Lanka and Banggladesh, etc.) become available in the future.