Platypleura badia Distant, 1888

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

Platypleura badia Distant, 1888

Platypleura badia Distant, 1888

Platypleura fasuayensis Boulard, 2005

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: recordedBy: Leonardo Fea; sex: female; Taxon: scientificName: Platypleurabadia Distant, 1888; Location: continent: Asia; country: Myanmar; locality: Houngdarau Valley, Tenasserim ; Record Level: institutionCode: MSNG; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: BMNH(E) 1009506 ; occurrenceRemarks: Specimen not part of type series, see taxon notes.; recordedBy: G.C. Clarence; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Taxon: scientificName: Platypleurabadia Distant, 1888; Location: continent: Asia; country: Myanmar; locality: Toungoo Dist., Lower Burma ; Event: eventDate: ??/??/1913; Record Level: institutionCode: NHMUK; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Distribution

[Metcalf, 1963] Tenasserim; Lower Burma; Indo-China; Perak; Burma; Tonkin; Malay Penninsula. [Sanborn, 2014] China, Vietnam, Thailand, India, Burma, Vietnam, Tenasserim, Burma, North Vietnam, Yunnan, Malaysia, Myanmar.

Notes

Authority: Distant 1888c; In the NHMUK there is a male specimen bearing a type label, however this male was described later by Distant (1913b). Holotype is a female from "Tenasserim: Houngdarau Valley" (MSNG). Not from India: Sanborn (2014) states India in reference to Sanborn et al. (2007) and Lee (2008), however their inclusion of India is in reference to previous distributions that may be incorrect, having resulted from Indo-China being included as India. Further evidence is required before this species can be included in the fauna of this region.