Chremistica viridis (Fabricius, 1803)

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

Chremistica viridis (Fabricius, 1803)

Tettigonia viridis Fabricius, 1803

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Taxon: scientificName: Chremisticaviridis (Fabricius, 1803); Location: continent: South America; locality: Locality unknown ; Record Level: basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Distribution

[Metcalf, 1963] Kedah; South America [error]; America [error]; Java; Philippine Islands; Sumatra; Surinam; Ceylon; Indochina; Siam; Malay Peninsula. [Sanborn, 2014] Vietnam, Southeast Asia, Thailand, Philippine Republic, Indonesia, Malaysia, Indochina, Sri Lanka.

Notes

Authority: Fabricius 1803; Type locality listed as "America meridionali" [South America], however Metcalf (1963) states this was an error. Not from Sri Lanka: Errors synonymizing Chremistica viridis (Fabricius, 1803), with Cicada atrovirens Guérin-Méneville, 1838 and Chremistica mixta (Kirby, 1891) by Distant (1892a), of which only Chremistica mixta (Kirby, 1891) is from Sri Lanka.