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

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scientific name

Meimuna gamameda (Distant, 1902)
status

 

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.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadidae

Genus

Meimuna