Megapomponia imperatoria (Westwood, 1842)

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

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scientific name

Megapomponia imperatoria (Westwood, 1842)
status

 

Megapomponia imperatoria (Westwood, 1842)

Cicada imperatoria Westwood, 1842

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Taxon: scientificName: Megapomponiaimperatoria (Westwood, 1842); Location: continent: Asia; locality: East Indies and the Indian Islands ; Record Level: institutionCode: OUMNH; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Distribution

[Metcalf, 1963] East Indies; Indian Islands; Nepal; India; Assam; Malaya; Borneo; Sumatra; Penang; Cambodia; Laos; Siam; Malay Peninsula; Java; Malay Islands; Malay States; Sarawak; Malacca; Perak; Singapore Island; Johore. [Duffels and van der Laan, 1985] Nepal. [Sanborn, 2014] Thailand, India, Nepal, Malaysia, Borneo, Cambodia, Laos, Sarawak, Indonesia, Indian Islands, Peninsular Malaysia.

Notes

Authority: Westwood 1842; Multiple localities listed in species description. Not from India: Metcalf (1963), in error, listed "India, Assam, Nepal" in reference to Walker (1850). The type description does not give a specific locality (East Indies and the Indian Islands), while recent literature indicates that this species is confined to the Malaysian Peninsula ( Lee 2014). Subsequent references to India (and Nepal) in Metcalf (1963), Duffels and van der Laan (1985) and Sanborn (2014) are likely to be based on this previous error.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadidae

Genus

Megapomponia