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Platypleura octoguttata Fabricius 1798

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Platypleura octoguttata (Fabricius, 1798)

[Tettigonia] 8-guttata Fabricius 1798: 515.

Oxypleura sanguiflua Walker 1850: 24.

Type locality. Incorrectly attributed to French Guiana.

Specimens were collected from within and in the outskirts of Karachi (May to Sep 2005, 2006). Distant (1889, 1906a) also reported that the species was collected in Karachi. Butler (1874) reported specimens from Wuzeerabad (sic), Punjab and Distant (1889) from Wazeerabad (sic), Panjab which are currently Wazirabad, Punjab. The species was captured from Acacia spp. in large numbers. Remarks. The species was previously known from India and Sri Lanka (Metcalf 1963a; Duffels & van der Laan 1985).

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Published as part of Ahmed, Zubair & Sanborn, Allen F., 2010, The cicada fauna of Pakistan including the description of four new species (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae), pp. 27-48 in Zootaxa 2516 on page 38, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.196127

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/D10087A1C501FFA4FF34FBAC7C1BCD88

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Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.196127 (DOI)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/2D39FFD9C50AFFAFFFA3FFC67D4AC84F (URL)
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https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/D10087A1C501FFA4FF34FBAC7C1BCD88 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/119389466 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/47968/taxon/D10087A1C501FFA4FF34FBAC7C1BCD88.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Fabricius
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Cicadidae
Genus
Platypleura
Species
octoguttata
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Platypleura octoguttata Fabricius, 1798 sec. Ahmed & Sanborn, 2010

References

  • Fabricius, J. C. (1798) Supplementum entomologiae systematicae. Proft & Storch, Hafniae. 572 pp.
  • Walker, F. (1850) List of the Specimens of Homopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. British Museum Trustees, London. 1 - 260.
  • Distant, W. L. (1889) A monograph of Oriental Cicadidae. Published by order of the trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Parts 1 and 2: 1 - 48, pls. I - IV.
  • Distant, W. L. (1906 a) Rhynchota. Heteroptera-Homoptera. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Published under the authority of the Secretary of State for India in Council. Edited by Lt. Col. C. T. Bingham 3: i - xiv, 1 - 503.
  • Butler, A. G. (1874) Monographic list of the homopterous insects of the genus Platypleura. Cistula Entomologica, 1, 183 - 184.
  • Metcalf, Z. P. (1963 a) General catalogue of the Homoptera, Fascicle VIII. Cicadoidea. Part 1. Cicadidae. Section I. Tibiceninae. North Carolina State College Contribution, 1502, i - vii, 1 - 585.
  • Duffels, J. P. & van der Laan, P. A. (1985) Catalogue of the Cicadoidea (Homoptera, Auchenorhyncha) 1956 - 1980. Dr. W. Junk Publishers, Series Entomologica 34, Dordrect. 414 pp.