Platypleura basialba ( Walker, 1850 )

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 basialba ( Walker, 1850 )
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Platypleura basialba ( Walker, 1850) View in CoL . New record.

Oxypleura basialba Walker 1850: 26 View in CoL .

Type locality. Bengal.

Specimens were collected from Chakwal, Punjab, Pakistan collected on 17.VII.2007. Identification was confirmed by Y.J. Lee.

Remarks. The species was previously known only from India ( Metcalf 1963a).

Platypleura mackinnoni Distant, 1904 View in CoL . New record.

Platypleura mackinnoni Distant 1904: 667 View in CoL .

Type locality. Mysore.

Specimens were collected from Rangpur, Dera Ismail Khan on Sheesham trees, Dalbergia sissoo Roxb. ex DC in bulk quantity on 18.VI.2009. Specimens were also deposited in the Peshawer Forest Institute, Peshawer, N.W.F.P. and were donated by the Pusa collection, India. Remarks. The species was previously known only from India ( Metcalf 1963a; Duffels & van der Laan 1985).

References

Distant, W. L. (1904) Additions of a knowledge of the family Cicadidae. Transaction of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 1904, 667 - 676.

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.