Melampsalta literata (Distant, 1888)

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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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.4.e8051

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scientific name

Melampsalta literata (Distant, 1888)
status

 

Melampsalta literata (Distant, 1888)

Cicadetta literata Distant, 1888

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: BMNH(E) 1009614 ; recordedBy: Leech; individualCount: 1; sex: female; Taxon: scientificName: Melampsaltaliterata (Distant, 1888); Location: continent: Asia; country: India; locality: Cashmere Valley ; verbatimElevation: 6300 ft; Record Level: institutionCode: NHMUK; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Distribution

[Metcalf, 1963] Kashmir; India; Uttar Pradesh. [Sanborn, 2014] Pakistan, India.

Notes

Authority: Distant 1888d

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadidae

Genus

Melampsalta