Huechys phaenicura (Germar, 1834)

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

Huechys phaenicura (Germar, 1834)

Cicada phaenicura Germar, 1834

Huechys phaenicura balabakensis Haupt, 1924

Huechys phaenicura palawanensis Haupt, 1924

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Taxon: scientificName: Huechysphaenicura (Germar, 1834); Location: continent: Asia; locality: India orientali ; Record Level: basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Distribution

[Metcalf, 1963] India; Asia; Locality Unknown; Eastern India; Philippine Islands; Java; Malay Archipelago; Sikkim; Luzon; Samar. [Sanborn, 2014] Philippines, Palawan, Samar, Luzon, Balabac Island, Malaysia, Indonesia, Java, India, Laos, Brazil, Mindanao, Samar.

Notes

Authority: Germar 1834; Unlikley to be from India: Metcalf (1963) states "India", "Eastern India" and "Sikkim", however the species description states "India orientali" with no specific location listed. Furthermore, Distant (1892a) states that "According to Mr. Atkinson this species is "reported from India, Sikkim," but at present it seems extremely doubtful that it is found on the Continent at all. I certainly have seen it in none of the many collections examined from India, Burma, Tenasserim, or the Malay Peninsula, and it is probably an insular species". Thus the subsequent "India" locality in Sanborn (2014), in reference to Lee (2009a), is likely to be a continuation of this earlier error.