Platylomia operculata Distant, 1913

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

Platylomia operculata Distant, 1913

Platylomia operculata Distant, 1913

Materials

Type status: Lectotype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: BMNH(E) 1009486 ; recordedBy: R.V. de Salvaza; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Taxon: scientificName: Platylomiaoperculata Distant, 1913; Location: continent: Asia; locality: Indo-China ; Record Level: institutionCode: NHMUK; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Distribution

[Metcalf, 1963] Indochina. [Sanborn, 2014] Thailand, Burma, Laos, India, Indochina, Vietnam, China, Yunnan, Guangxi, Jiangxi, Hainan, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar.

Notes

Authority: Distant 1913b; Female described by Boulard (2005). Sanborn (2014) listed India in reference to Boulard (2005). This species was described from Indo-China and there are currently no records of this species known from the Indian region, however it is present in the surrounding countries.