The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, Nepal and Sri Lanka: an annotated provisional catalogue, regional checklist and bibliography
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Price, Benjamin Wills
Author
Allan, Elizabeth Louise
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Marathe, Kiran
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Sarkar, Vivek
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Simon, Chris
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Kunte, Krushnamegh
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Biodiversity Data Journal
2016
4
8051
8051
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.4.e8051
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.4.e8051
1314-2828-4-8051
Terpnosia psecas (Walker, 1850)
Dundubia psecas
Walker, 1850
Materials
Type status:
Holotype
. Occurrence: sex:
female
; Taxon: scientificName: Terpnosiapsecas (Walker, 1850); Location: continent: Asia; country:
Indonesia
; locality:
Java
; Record Level: institutionCode:
NHMUK
; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
Distribution
[Metcalf, 1963] Java; Ceylon; Sikkim; Borneo; India; British India; Sumatra; Siam (?); Sunda Islands; Burma. [Duffels and van der Laan, 1985] Ceylon. [Sanborn, 2014] Java, Peninsular Malaysia, Ceylon, Borneo, Sarawak, Siam, Sabah.
Notes
Authority:
Walker 1850
;
Distant (1906a)
refers to a male specimen, but lists two locations. Unlikely to be from India or Sri Lanka:
Lee (2012b)
states that the type specimen of
Terpnosia psecas
(Walker, 1850) is a female from Java. Male specimens identified by former authors were not true
T. psecas
but were
T. elegans
(Kirby, 1891) from Sri Lanka. The possible confusion with India has not been resolved due to specimen unavailability
Kato (1932)
, however it is highly unlikely given the reported range (Indonesia and Malaysia). Subsequent references to India and Sri Lanka in
Duffels and van der Laan (1985)
and
Sanborn (2014)
are likely in reference to these previous misidentifications.