Cryptotympana exalbida Distant, 1891

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

Cryptotympana exalbida Distant, 1891

Cryptotympana exalbida Distant, 1891

Materials

Type status: Syntype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: BMNH(E) 1009387 ; occurrenceRemarks: Voucher number corresponds to one specimen.; recordedBy: G. Hampson; individualCount: 4; sex: female; Taxon: scientificName: Cryptotympanaexalbida Distant, 1891; Location: continent: Asia; country: India; locality: Nilgiri N. Slopes ; verbatimElevation: 3500 ft; Event: eventDate: 25/05/1888; Record Level: institutionCode: NHMUK; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: BMNH(E) 1009386 ; occurrenceRemarks: Specimen not part of type series, see taxon notes.; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Taxon: scientificName: Cryptotympanaexalbida Distant, 1891; Location: continent: Asia; country: Sri Lanka; locality: Oduchuddan ; Event: eventDate: ??/05/1910; Record Level: institutionCode: NHMUK; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Distribution

[Metcalf, 1963] India; Sikkim; Ceylon; Madras. [Duffels and van der Laan, 1985] Ceylon. [Sanborn, 2014] India, Sri Lanka.

Notes

Authority: Distant 1891; In the NHMUK there is a male specimen bearing a type label and a note from Broomfield dated 1978. This male specimen was described later by Distant (1913a). The type series includes four females from "Continental India: Neelgiri Hills, northern slopes, 3500 feet (Hampson-coll. Dist.)".