Proarna hilaris (Germar, 1834)

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

Proarna hilaris (Germar, 1834)

Cicada hilaris Germar, 1834

Cicada subtincta Walker, 1850

Cicada albiflos Walker, 1850

Cicada tomentosa Walker, 1858

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: recordedBy: Hope; Taxon: scientificName: Proarnahilaris (Germar, 1834); Location: continent: Oceania; locality: Australasia ; Record Level: basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Distribution

[Metcalf, 1963] Australia [?]; Assam [?]; Cuba; Saint Thomas Island; Jamaica; East Bengal [?]; Santo Domingo; Philippine Islands [?]; Molucca Islands [?]; Mexico; Antilles; Dominica; South America; Saint Croix Island; Porto Rico; West Indies. [Sanborn, 2014] Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, French Antilles, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Guana Island, British West Indies, Jamaica, Mexico, Caribbean Islands, Venezuela, Hispaniola.

Notes

Authority: Germar 1834; A junior synonym ( Cicada subtincta Walker, 1850) of this species was described from Silhet (Bangladesh). It should be noted that the other two junior synonyms ( Cicada albiflos Walker, 1850 and Cicada tomentosa Walker, 1858) were described from Jamaica and West Indies, while the senior synonym, Proarna hilaris (Germar, 1834) was described from Australasia. Thus if the type locality of the junior synonym ( Cicada subtincta ) is correct it may have been incorrectly synonymised with Proarna hilaris by Stål (1862). Though not officially recorded from India it is highly likely that the junior synonym C. subtincta occurs in India.