Platypleura testacea (Walker, 1858)

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

Platypleura testacea (Walker, 1858)

Zammara testacea Walker, 1858

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: BMNH(E) 1009498 ; individualCount: 1; sex: female; Taxon: scientificName: Platypleuratestacea (Walker, 1858); Location: locality: Locality unknown ; Record Level: institutionCode: NHMUK; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Distribution

[Metcalf, 1963] Oman; Iran; India. [Sanborn, 2014] Iran, India, Oman.

Notes

Authority: Walker 1858a; Unsure of number of specimens used in description, however only one female specimen in the NHMUK collection. Not from India: Myers (1928) claimed the locality of this species to be "India (locality unknown)" which is incorrect as it is restricted to the Arabian penninsula. Subsequent reference to India in Sanborn (2014) by Mozaffarian and Sanborn (2010) likely due to previous inaccurate literature.