Platypleura octoguttata ( Fabricius, 1798 )

Ahmed, Zubair & Sanborn, Allen F., 2010, The cicada fauna of Pakistan including the description of four new species (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae), Zootaxa 2516, pp. 27-48 : 38

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.196127

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6206971

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scientific name

Platypleura octoguttata ( Fabricius, 1798 )
status

 

Platypleura octoguttata ( Fabricius, 1798) View in CoL

[Tettigonia] 8-guttata Fabricius 1798: 515.

Oxypleura sanguiflua Walker 1850: 24 View in CoL .

Type locality. Incorrectly attributed to French Guiana.

Specimens were collected from within and in the outskirts of Karachi (May to Sep 2005, 2006). Distant (1889, 1906a) also reported that the species was collected in Karachi. Butler (1874) reported specimens from Wuzeerabad (sic), Punjab and Distant (1889) from Wazeerabad (sic), Panjab which are currently Wazirabad, Punjab. The species was captured from Acacia spp. in large numbers. Remarks. The species was previously known from India and Sri Lanka ( Metcalf 1963a; Duffels & van der Laan 1985).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

SuperFamily

Cicadoidea

Family

Cicadidae

SubFamily

Cicadinae

Tribe

Platypleurini

Genus

Platypleura

Loc

Platypleura octoguttata ( Fabricius, 1798 )

Ahmed, Zubair & Sanborn, Allen F. 2010
2010
Loc

Oxypleura sanguiflua

Walker 1850: 24
1850
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