Melampsalta Kolenati, 1857

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

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.196127

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6207055

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scientific name

Melampsalta Kolenati, 1857
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Type species. Cicada (Melampsalta) musiva caspica Kolenati

Remarks. The genus is distributed across several continents with species represented in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia ( Metcalf 1963c; Duffels & van der Laan 1985).

Kolenati, F. (1857) Homoptera Latreille. Leach. Gulaerostria Zetterstedt. Bulletin de la Societe Imperiele des Naturalistes Moscuo, Section Biologique, 30, 399 - 444.

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

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

SuperFamily

Cicadoidea

Family

Cicadidae

SubFamily

Cicadettinae

Tribe

Cicadettini