Tacua speciosa speciosa (Illiger, 1800)

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

Tacua speciosa speciosa (Illiger, 1800)

Tettigonia speciosa Illiger, 1800

Cicada indica Donovan, 1800

Tettigonia gigantea Weber, 1801

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Taxon: scientificName: Tacuaspeciosaspeciosa (Illiger, 1800); Location: continent: Asia; country: Indonesia; locality: Sumatra ; Record Level: basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Distribution

[Metcalf, 1963] Bengal; Sumatra; India; Java; Asia; Borneo; Hindustan; Europe; Eastern India; Sunda Islands; Penang; Sarawak; Malay States; Malaya; Malacca; Singapore Island; Perak; Johore; East Indies (?); Bengal (?); Malay Peninsula. [Sanborn, 2014] Malaysia, Borneo, Sarawak, Sumatra, Java, Sabah, Peninsular Malaysia, Malausia, Indonesia.

Notes

Authority: Illiger 1800; Unlikely to be from India: Metcalf (1963), among others, states India in reference to the type locality of Cicada indica Donovan, 1800 which is a junior synonym of Tacua speciosa speciosa (Illiger, 1800). Distant (1892a), however noted that "According to Donovan, a single specimen of this species was found in Bengal by Mr. Fichtel, and deposited in the Imperial Cabinet at Vienna, but that habitat I consider liable to the greatest doubt." Cicada indica is illustrated in Fig. 1.