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Linguacicada continuata

Description

Linguacicada continuata (Distant, 1888c)

Cicadetta continuata Distant 1888c: 375.

Type locality. Pakistan.

The species was originally described from Baluchistan (Distant, 1888c) with further references to Quetta (Distant, 1906a) and Pakistan (Oshanin, 1908). Chou et al. (1997) transferred the species as the type species and the only known representative of the genus Linguacicada from Melampsalta Kolenati and include Pakistan in the distribution. Specimens were collected from Omarkot, Sindh, Gharo, Sindh and Mastung, Baluchistan on Tamarix spp. Collection dates were 7.V.2006, 12.VI.2006, and 08.VI.2007.

Remarks. The species has been reported from Pakistan, India and China (Metcalf 1963c; Chou et al. 1997).

Notes

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 43, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.196127

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Distant
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Cicadidae
Genus
Linguacicada
Species
continuata
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Linguacicada continuata (Distant, 1888) sec. Ahmed & Sanborn, 2010

References

  • Distant, W. L. (1888 c) Descriptions of new species of Oriental Cicadidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (6) 1, 370 - 376.
  • 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.
  • Oshanin, V. T. (1908) Verzeichnis der palaearktischen Hemipteren mit besonderer Berucksichtigung ihrer Verteilung im Russischen Reiche. II. Band. Homoptera. III. Lieferung. Annuaire du Musee Zoologique de l'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de St. Petersbourg, St. Petersburg, 13, 385 - 492.
  • Chou I., Lei Z., Li L., Lu, X. & Yao W. (1997) [The Cicadidae of China (Homoptera: Cicadoidea)]. Tianze Eldoneio, Hong Kong. 380 pp., 16 Plts [in Chinese, English summary].
  • Metcalf, Z. P. (1963 c) General catalogue of the Homoptera, Fascicle VIII. Cicadoidea. Part 2. Tibicinidae. North Carolina State College Contribution, 1564, i - vi, 1 - 492.