Psalmocharias rugipennis (Walker, 1858)

Price, Benjamin Wills, Allan, Elizabeth Louise, Marathe, Kiran, Sarkar, Vivek, Simon, Chris & Kunte, Krushnamegh, 2016, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, Nepal and Sri Lanka: an annotated provisional catalogue, regional checklist and bibliography, Biodiversity Data Journal 4, pp. 8051-8051 : 8051

Psalmocharias rugipennis (Walker, 1858)

Cicada rugipennis Walker, 1858

Sena querula var. ______ Distant, 1906

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: BMNH(E) 1009574 ; individualCount: 1; sex: female; Taxon: scientificName: Psalmochariasrugipennis (Walker, 1858); Location: continent: Asia; country: India; locality: Hindostan ; Record Level: institutionCode: NHMUK; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: BMNH(E) 1009575 ; recordedBy: W.H. Evans; individualCount: 1; sex: female; Taxon: scientificName: Psalmochariasrugipennis (Walker, 1858); Location: continent: Asia; country: Pakistan; locality: Quetta, Baluchistan ; verbatimElevation: 5500 ft; Event: eventDate: 23/06/1930; Record Level: institutionCode: NHMUK; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Distribution

[Metcalf, 1963] Hindustan; India; Pakistan; Baluchistan; Afghanistan; Northwestern India. [Sanborn, 2014] Pakistan, India, Afghanistan.

Notes

Authority: Walker 1858a; Species description states type specimen is male but the labelled type specimen in NHMUK is female. This observation agrees with Distant (1892a) which illustrates type specimen as a female.