Linguacicada continuata ( Distant, 1888c )

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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Cicadetta continuata Distant 1888c: 375 View in CoL .

Type locality. Pakistan.

The species was originally described from Baluchistan ( Distant, 1888c) with further references to Quetta ( Distant, 1906a) and Pakistan ( Oshanin, 1908). Chou et al. (1997) transferred the species as the type species and the only known representative of the genus Linguacicada from Melampsalta Kolenati and include Pakistan in the distribution. Specimens were collected from Omarkot, Sindh, Gharo, Sindh and Mastung, Baluchistan on Tamarix spp. Collection dates were 7.V.2006, 12.VI.2006, and 08.VI.2007.

Remarks. The species has been reported from Pakistan, India and China ( Metcalf 1963c; Chou et al. 1997).

References

Chou I., Lei Z., Li L., Lu, X. & Yao W. (1997) [The Cicadidae of China (Homoptera: Cicadoidea)]. Tianze Eldoneio, Hong Kong. 380 pp., 16 Plts [in Chinese, English summary].

Distant, W. L. (1888 c) Descriptions of new species of Oriental Cicadidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (6) 1, 370 - 376.

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.

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.

Oshanin, V. T. (1908) Verzeichnis der palaearktischen Hemipteren mit besonderer Berucksichtigung ihrer Verteilung im Russischen Reiche. II. Band. Homoptera. III. Lieferung. Annuaire du Musee Zoologique de l'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de St. Petersbourg, St. Petersburg, 13, 385 - 492.