4. Ceylonosticta tropica (Hagen, 1860)

Figs 14−19, 136−137; Map 3.

Platysticta tropica, Hagen in Selys, 1860, Bull. Acad. r. Belg. (2) 10: 438.

Platysticta tropica — Selys (1860): 438 [original description of Ƌ].

Ceylonosticta tropica — Fraser (1931b): 330, 332−333 [description of Ƌ and ♀, differential characters, figures of Ƌ anal appendages—attributed subsequently to Ceylonosticta subtropica by Fraser (1933b), determination key];─ Fraser (1933a): 128, 132−134, fig. 62; [description of Ƌ and ♀, differential characters, figures of Ƌ anal appendages—reproduction from Fraser (1931b), stated to belong to Ceylonosticta subtropica by Fraser (1933b)];─ Fraser (1933b): 203, 207−209, figs. 3, 4 [description of Ƌ and ♀, differential characters, figures of Ƌ anal appendages and prothorax, determination key, distribution].

Drepanosticta tropica — Bedjanič et al. (2007): 16, 96−97 [outline of differential characters, note on habitat, Ƌ and ♀ photograph];─ Bedjanič et al. (2014): 134−135 [differential characters, biology, distribution, threat status, photographs of Ƌ and ♀], Appendix 2, p. 297 [summary of known faunistic records].

SPECIES DIAGNOSIS IN THE KEY → 16b; NUMBER OF KNOWN LOCALITIES— Bedjanič et al. (2014): 14.