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Species

Platylomia radha (Distant, 1881)

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (7)

  • Dundubia radha Distant, 1881b: 634.

    Lectotype; male; eb5a03ef-a601-4b4b-9b39-b5b2885e4a1d; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); India, Uttarakhand: Masuri, or Mussoorie Hills

  • Dundubia similis Distant, 1888b: 292.
  • Platylomia radha (Distant, 1881) in Distant, 1906i: 55.
  • Dundubia similis Distant, 1888 (subjective synonym of Dundubia radha Distant, 1881) in Zaidi & Ruslan, 1997a: 227.

Nomenclature references (7)

  • Beuk, P.L.T. (1998a) Revision of the radha group of the genus Platylomia Stål, 1870 (Homoptera, Cicadidae). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 140, 147–176.
  • Distant, W.L. (1881b) Descriptions of new species belonging to the homopterous family Cicadidae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1881, 627–648.
  • Distant, W.L. (1888b) Descriptions of new species of Oriental Homoptera belonging to the family Cicadidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (Ser. 6), 1, 291–298.
  • Distant, W.L. (1889a) A monograph of Oriental Cicadidae. West, Newman & Co.; R. Friedlander & Sohn. London; Berlin. 1-48. pl. i-iv.
  • Distant, W.L. (1906i) Rhynchota. Heteroptera-Homoptera. Bingham, C. T. (ed.). The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Taylor and Francis, London. Vol. 3: i–xiv, 1–503.
  • Price, B.W., Allan, E.L., Marathe, K., Sarkar, V., Simon, C.M. & Kunte, K. (2016) The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, Nepal and Sri Lanka: an annotated provisional catalogue, regional checklist and bibliography. Biodiversity Data Journal, 4(e8051), 1–156. https://doi.org/10.3897/bdj.4.e8051
  • Zaidi, M.I. & Ruslan, M.Y. (1997a) Notes on cicadas (Homoptera: Cicadoidea) in the Zoological Reference Collection, National University of Singapore. Serangga, 2, 217–233.
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

after Radha, in Hinduism, a goddess, the lover of Krishna

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Species1056