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Sounama (Sounama) imprimis Distant 1908

  • 1. Department of Entomology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19 Zhongguancun Lu, Beijing 100080, P. R. China;
  • 2. Department of Entomology, The Natural History Museum, London SW 7 5 BD, UK

Description

S. (Sounama) imprimis Distant

(figures 14, 15, 62⎯65, 100)

Sounama imprimis Distant, 1908: 106, figure 80. Lectotype, India (BMNH), here designated [examined].

Material examined. LECTOTYPE, here designated, India:`Nilgiri (Hampson) Distant Coll. 1911⎯383' (BMNH).

India: 1, Nilghiri Coonoor, 1902 (M. Maindron) (BMNH); 1, 13, Kodaikanal, S. India, 6500 ft, no date (P. S. Nathan) (NCSU); 2, Tamil N., Coonoor, 1700⎯1900 m, 23⎯ 26 November 1978 (HU); 2, Tamil N., Kotagiri, Nilgiri, 1700 m, 29 November 1978 (HU).

The following female specimens, without associated males, may be this species. India: 1, Kerala State, south Malabar Walayar Forests, 213 m, September 1957 (P. S. Nathan) (CAS); 1, Kerala, Trivandrum Dist., Poonandi Range, 3000 ft, May 1971 (T. R. Susai Nathan) (AMNH); 1, Pulney Hills, Kodaikanal, S. India, May 1953 (P. S. Nathan) (NCSU); 1, Talewadi, nr Castle Rock, N. Kanara dist., 3⎯ 10 October 1916 (S. Kemp, Zool. S. Ind.) (USNM); 1, Walayar Forests, S. Malabar, S. India, 1000 ft, September 1952 (P. S. Nathan) (NCSU).

Distribution. South India.

Notes

Published as part of Liang, A. - P. & Webb, M. D., 2002, New taxa and revisionary notes in Rhinaulacini spittlebugs from southern Asia (Homoptera: Cercopidae), pp. 729-756 in Journal of Natural History 36 (6) on pages 746-747, DOI: 10.1080/00222930110062336, http://zenodo.org/record/4757353

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
AMNH , BMNH , CAS , HU , NCSU , USNM
Event date
1916-10-10 , 1978-11-26 , 1978-11-29
Verbatim event date
1916-10-10 , 1978-11-26/29
Scientific name authorship
Distant
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Aphrophoridae
Genus
Sounama
Species
imprimis
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Sounama (Sounama) imprimis Distant, 1908 sec. Liang & Webb, 2002

References

  • DISTANT, W. L., 1908, Rhynchota, Vol. IV. Homoptera and Appendix (Pt.), in The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma (London: Taylor & Francis), pp. 79⎯156.