Platypleura octoguttata ( Fabricius, 1798 )

Ahmed, Zubair & Sanborn, Allen F., 2010, The cicada fauna of Pakistan including the description of four new species (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae), Zootaxa 2516, pp. 27-48 : 38

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scientific name	Platypleura octoguttata ( Fabricius, 1798 )
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Platypleura octoguttata ( Fabricius, 1798) View in CoL

[Tettigonia] 8-guttata Fabricius 1798: 515.

Oxypleura sanguiflua Walker 1850: 24 View in CoL .

Type locality. Incorrectly attributed to French Guiana.

Specimens were collected from within and in the outskirts of Karachi (May to Sep 2005, 2006). Distant (1889, 1906a) also reported that the species was collected in Karachi. Butler (1874) reported specimens from Wuzeerabad (sic), Punjab and Distant (1889) from Wazeerabad (sic), Panjab which are currently Wazirabad, Punjab. The species was captured from Acacia spp. in large numbers. Remarks. The species was previously known from India and Sri Lanka ( Metcalf 1963a; Duffels & van der Laan 1985).

References

Distant, W. L. (1889) A monograph of Oriental Cicadidae. Published by order of the trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Parts 1 and 2: 1 - 48, pls. I - IV.

Butler, A. G. (1874) Monographic list of the homopterous insects of the genus Platypleura. Cistula Entomologica, 1, 183 - 184.

Distant, W. L. (1906 a) Rhynchota. Heteroptera-Homoptera. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Published under the authority of the Secretary of State for India in Council. Edited by Lt. Col. C. T. Bingham 3: i - xiv, 1 - 503.

Fabricius, J. C. (1798) Supplementum entomologiae systematicae. Proft & Storch, Hafniae. 572 pp.

Duffels, J. P. & van der Laan, P. A. (1985) Catalogue of the Cicadoidea (Homoptera, Auchenorhyncha) 1956 - 1980. Dr. W. Junk Publishers, Series Entomologica 34, Dordrect. 414 pp.

Metcalf, Z. P. (1963 a) General catalogue of the Homoptera, Fascicle VIII. Cicadoidea. Part 1. Cicadidae. Section I. Tibiceninae. North Carolina State College Contribution, 1502, i - vii, 1 - 585.

Walker, F. (1850) List of the Specimens of Homopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. British Museum Trustees, London. 1 - 260.