Platypleura insignis Distant, 1879

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 insignis Distant, 1879

Platypleura insignis Distant, 1879

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: recordedBy: Limborg; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Taxon: scientificName: Platypleurainsignis Distant, 1879; Location: continent: Asia; country: Myanmar; locality: Upper Tenasserim ; Record Level: institutionCode: NZSI; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: BMNH(E) 1009505 ; recordedBy: William Doherty; individualCount: 1; sex: female; Taxon: scientificName: Platypleurainsignis Distant, 1879; Location: continent: Asia; country: Myanmar; locality: Karen Hills ; Record Level: institutionCode: NHMUK; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Distribution

[Distant, 1906] India: Upper Tenasserim. Burma: Karen Hills. [Metcalf, 1963] Tenasserim; Hindustan; Burma; India. [Sanborn, 2014] Indochina, Thailand, Tenasserim.

Notes

Authority: Distant 1879; Metcalf (1963) lists "India", however the type was collected from Upper Tenasserim (southern Myanmar), which was formerly a part of "British India" but is quite distant from the India/Myanmar border. No records have been found in modern India at present.