The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, Nepal and Sri Lanka: an annotated provisional catalogue, regional checklist and bibliography Author Price, Benjamin Wills Author Allan, Elizabeth Louise Author Marathe, Kiran Author Sarkar, Vivek Author Simon, Chris Author Kunte, Krushnamegh text 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 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.