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Discovery of the cicada genus Becquartina Kato, 1940 (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadinae) in India with the description of a new species from Meghalaya

  • 1. North Orissa University, Department of Zoology, Sri Ram Chandra Vihar, Takatpur, Mayurbhanj, Baripada, Odisha 757003 & Wildlife Institute of India -Category 2 Centre (WII-C2C) for World Natural Heritage Management and Training for Asia and the Pacific Region, under the auspices of UNESCO, Wildlife Institute of India, Chandrabani, Dehradun, Uttarakhand 248001
  • 2. North Orissa University, Department of Zoology, Sri Ram Chandra Vihar, Takatpur, Mayurbhanj, Baripada, Odisha 757003
  • 3. Zoological Survey of India, Central Zone Regional Centre, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh

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Sarkar, Vivek, Thangkhiew, Rodeson, Mahapatra, Cuckoo, Mohapatra, Pratyush P., Nair, Manoj V., Hajong, Sudhanya R. (2024): Discovery of the cicada genus Becquartina Kato, 1940 (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadinae) in India with the description of a new species from Meghalaya. Zootaxa 5432 (1): 96-108, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5432.1.7, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5432.1.7

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