Melampsalta musiva ( Germar, 1830 )

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 : 43-44

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scientific name	Melampsalta musiva ( Germar, 1830 )
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Melampsalta musiva ( Germar, 1830) View in CoL

Cicada musiva Germar 1830: 43 View in CoL

Cicada melampsalta Walker 1850: 239 View in CoL . Cicada tamarisci Walker 1870: 2403. Type locality. Nubia.

Distant (1906a) reported the species from Pakistan.

Remarks. The species has been reported from North Africa to Pakistan ( Metcalf 1963c; Dlabola 1981; Lodos & Klakandelen 1981; Duffels & van der Laan 1985; Mirzayans 1995; Mozaffarian & Sanborn 2010).

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.

Dlabola, J. (1981) Ergebnisse der Tschechoslowakisoh-Iranischen Entomologischen Expedition nach dem Iran. (1970 - 1973). Acta Entomologica Musie Nationalis Pragae, 40, 127 - 308.

Germar, E. F. (1830) Species Cicadarium enumeratae et sub genera distributae. Thon's Entomologichen Archives, 2, 37 - 57.

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.

Lodos, N., & Kalkandelen, A. (1981) Preliminary list of Auchenorryncha with notes on distribution and importance of species in Turkey. V. Families Flatidae, Ricaniidae, and Cicadidae. Turkiye Bitki Koruma Dergisi, 5, 67 - 82.

Metcalf, Z. P. (1963 c) General catalogue of the Homoptera, Fascicle VIII. Cicadoidea. Part 2. Tibicinidae. North Carolina State College Contribution, 1564, i - vi, 1 - 492.

Mirzayans, H. (1995) Insects of Iran. The list of Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha in the insect collection of Plant Pests & Diseases Research Institute. Plant Pests & Diseases Research Institute, Insects Taxonomy Research Department Publication Number 1. 59 pp.

Mozaffarian, F. & Sanborn, A. F. (2010) The cicadas of Iran with the description of two new species (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae). Mitteilungen aus dem Museum fur Naturkunde in Berlin-Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 57, 69 - 84.

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

Walker, F. (1870) A list of insects collected by J. K. Lord, Esq., in Egypt, along the African shore of the Red Sea and in Arabia; with descriptions of the species new to science. Zoologist, (2) 5, 2403 - 2405.