Meimuna gamameda (Distant, 1902)

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

Meimuna gamameda (Distant, 1902)

Cosmopsaltria gamameda Distant, 1902

Materials

Type status: Syntype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: BMNH(E) 1009476 ; recordedBy: E.E. Green; sex: male; Taxon: scientificName: Meimunagamameda (Distant, 1902); Location: continent: Asia; country: Sri Lanka; locality: Pundalu-oya ; Event: eventDate: ??/02/1902; Record Level: institutionCode: NHMUK; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Syntype. Occurrence: recordedBy: E.E. Green; sex: female; Taxon: scientificName: Meimunagamameda (Distant, 1902); Location: continent: Asia; country: Sri Lanka; locality: Pundalu-oya ; Event: eventDate: ??/02/1902; Record Level: basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: BMNH(E) 1009443 ; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Taxon: scientificName: Meimunagamameda (Distant, 1902); Location: continent: Asia; country: Sri Lanka; locality: Kandy, Ceylon ; Record Level: institutionCode: NHMUK; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Distribution

[Metcalf, 1963] Ceylon. [Duffels and van der Laan, 1985] Ceylon. [Sanborn, 2014] China, Yunnan, Sikkim, Sri Lanka.

Notes

Authority: Distant 1902; Sanborn (2014) listed locality including Sikkim in reference to Lei (1994). This may be in error as the species has been recorded from Sri Lanka previously.