Meimuna velitaris (Distant, 1897)

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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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.4.e8051

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scientific name

Meimuna velitaris (Distant, 1897)
status

 

Meimuna velitaris (Distant, 1897)

Cosmopsaltria velitaris Distant, 1897

Materials

Type status: Lectotype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: BMNH(E) 1009458 ; recordedBy: Watson; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Taxon: scientificName: Meimunavelitaris (Distant, 1897); Location: continent: Asia; country: Myanmar; locality: North Chin Hills ; Record Level: institutionCode: NHMUK; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Distribution

[Metcalf, 1963] Burma; India. [Sanborn, 2014] Pakistan, Burma.

Notes

Authority: Distant 1897; Metcalf (1963) listed India in reference to Mathur (1953) in which Burma was considerd a part of "British India". The type locality (Chin Hills) extends into India (Lushai Hills - Nagaland), thus this species may be recorded in Nagaland in future.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadidae

Genus

Meimuna