Terpnosia psecas (Walker, 1850)

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

Terpnosia psecas (Walker, 1850)

Dundubia psecas Walker, 1850

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: sex: female; Taxon: scientificName: Terpnosiapsecas (Walker, 1850); Location: continent: Asia; country: Indonesia; locality: Java ; Record Level: institutionCode: NHMUK; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Distribution

[Metcalf, 1963] Java; Ceylon; Sikkim; Borneo; India; British India; Sumatra; Siam (?); Sunda Islands; Burma. [Duffels and van der Laan, 1985] Ceylon. [Sanborn, 2014] Java, Peninsular Malaysia, Ceylon, Borneo, Sarawak, Siam, Sabah.

Notes

Authority: Walker 1850; Distant (1906a) refers to a male specimen, but lists two locations. Unlikely to be from India or Sri Lanka: Lee (2012b) states that the type specimen of Terpnosia psecas (Walker, 1850) is a female from Java. Male specimens identified by former authors were not true T. psecas but were T. elegans (Kirby, 1891) from Sri Lanka. The possible confusion with India has not been resolved due to specimen unavailability Kato (1932), however it is highly unlikely given the reported range (Indonesia and Malaysia). Subsequent references to India and Sri Lanka in Duffels and van der Laan (1985) and Sanborn (2014) are likely in reference to these previous misidentifications.