Platypleura octoguttata octoguttata (Fabricius, 1798)

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 octoguttata octoguttata (Fabricius, 1798)

Tettigonia octoguttata Fabricius, 1798

Oxypleura sanguiflua Walker, 1850

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Taxon: scientificName: Platypleuraoctoguttataoctoguttata (Fabricius, 1798); Location: continent: South America; country: French Guiana; locality: Cajennae ; Record Level: basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: BMNH(E) 1009482 ; recordedBy: A. Berritt; individualCount: 1; sex: female; Taxon: scientificName: Platypleuraoctoguttataoctoguttata (Fabricius, 1798); Location: continent: Asia; country: India; locality: Jubbulpore ; Event: eventDate: ??/??/1936; Record Level: institutionCode: NHMUK; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Distribution

[Distant, 1889/92] India: Panjab (Wazeerabad); North Bengal; Naini Tal; Rajpootana (Mount Aboo); Jodhpoor; Sambalpoor; Karachi; Bombay; Karwar; Coimbatore; Neelgiri Hills (Southern Slopes); Shivarai Hills.; [Metcalf, 1963] French Guiana [?]; India; Bengal; Eastern India; Surinam [?]; Punjab; Northern Bengal; Northern India; Southern India; Calcutta; Central Provinces; Bombay; Ceylon; Mysore; Madras; Central India; Rajpatana; United Provinces; Uttar Pradesh. [Duffels and van der Laan, 1985] Ceylon; India. [Sanborn, 2014] India, Thailand, Pakistan.

Notes

Authority: Fabricius 1798; The type locality was stated as "Cajennae" [French Guiana], however all other specimens have been collected from the Indian region.