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Psalmocharias rugipennis Walker 1858

Description

Psalmocharias rugipennis (Walker, 1858)

Cicada rugipennis Walker 1858: 17.

Type locality. Hindustan.

Distant (1906a) listed Pakistan as habitat for the species. China (1926) and Janjua & Samuel (1941) listed Baluchistan as a source of specimens. Ghulamullah (1941) listed Quetta and Chaudhry et al. (1970) listed Quetta, Ziarat, and Pishin as collection localities.

Remarks. The species has been reported from Afghanistan, Pakistan and India (Metcalf 1963b; Duffels & van der Laan 1985).

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 42, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.196127

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Cicadidae
Genus
Psalmocharias
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hemiptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Walker
Species
rugipennis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Psalmocharias rugipennis Walker, 1858 sec. Ahmed & Sanborn, 2010

References

  • Walker, F. (1858) Supplement. List of the Specimens of Homopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum.
  • 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.
  • China, W. E. (1926) A new species of Cicadatra (Homoptera, Cicadidae) from Waziristan, with notes on the allied genus Psalmocharias, Kirk. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (9) 18, 374 - 376.
  • Janjua, N. A., & Samuel, C. K. (1941) Fruit pests of Baluchistan. Imperial Council of Agricultural Research Miscellaneous Bulletin (India), 42, 1 - 41, pls. I - III.
  • Ghulamullah. (1941) Aphididae and some other Rhynchota from Afghanistan. Indian Journal of Entomology, 3, 225 - 243.
  • Chaudhry, G. - U., Chaudhry, M. I. & Malik, N. K. (1970) Survey of insect fauna of forests of Pakistan. Volume II. Biological Sciences Research Division (Forest Entomology Branch), Pakistan Forest Institute, Peshwar. 205 pp.
  • Metcalf, Z. P. (1963 b) General catalogue of the Homoptera, Fascicle VIII. Cicadoidea. Part 1. Cicadidae. Section II. Gaeninae and Cicadinae. North Carolina State College Contribution, 1502, 587 - 919.
  • 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.