Megapomponia imperatoria (Westwood, 1842)

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

Megapomponia imperatoria (Westwood, 1842)

Cicada imperatoria Westwood, 1842

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Taxon: scientificName: Megapomponiaimperatoria (Westwood, 1842); Location: continent: Asia; locality: East Indies and the Indian Islands ; Record Level: institutionCode: OUMNH; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Distribution

[Metcalf, 1963] East Indies; Indian Islands; Nepal; India; Assam; Malaya; Borneo; Sumatra; Penang; Cambodia; Laos; Siam; Malay Peninsula; Java; Malay Islands; Malay States; Sarawak; Malacca; Perak; Singapore Island; Johore. [Duffels and van der Laan, 1985] Nepal. [Sanborn, 2014] Thailand, India, Nepal, Malaysia, Borneo, Cambodia, Laos, Sarawak, Indonesia, Indian Islands, Peninsular Malaysia.

Notes

Authority: Westwood 1842; Multiple localities listed in species description. Not from India: Metcalf (1963), in error, listed "India, Assam, Nepal" in reference to Walker (1850). The type description does not give a specific locality (East Indies and the Indian Islands), while recent literature indicates that this species is confined to the Malaysian Peninsula ( Lee 2014). Subsequent references to India (and Nepal) in Metcalf (1963), Duffels and van der Laan (1985) and Sanborn (2014) are likely to be based on this previous error.