Platypleura stridula (Linnaeus, 1758)

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 stridula (Linnaeus, 1758)

Cicada stridula Linnaeus, 1758

Cicada catenata Drury, 1773

Cicada nigrolinea De Geer, 1773

Platypleura stridula var. a Stål, 1866

Materials

Type status: Lectotype. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; Taxon: scientificName: Platypleurastridula (Linnaeus, 1758); Location: continent: Asia; locality: Indiis ; Record Level: institutionCode: UUZM; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Distribution

[Metcalf, 1963] India; Cape of Good Hope; South Africa; Natal; Transvaal; Africa. [Sanborn, 2014] South Africa, Zambezi, Zambia, Australia.

Notes

Authority: Linnaeus 1758; Not from India: Type locality stated as "Indiis", which was reported as India in Metcalf (1963), however all other specimens have been collected from southern Africa.