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species

Calcagninus nilgirensis (Distant, 1887)

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (4)

  • Leptopsaltria nilgirensis Distant, 1887a: 228.

    Holotype; female; BMNH(E) 1009564; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); India: Nilgiri Hills, northern slopes, Madras, 5000 ft, 2/VI/1887, G.F. Hampson

  • Calcagninus nilgirensis (Distant, 1887) in Distant, 1892b: 137.
  • Calcagninus nilgiriensis [sic] Distant, 1887 in Distant, 1906i: 138.
  • Calcagninus nilgiriensis [sic] Distant, 1887 (misspelling of Leptopsaltria nilgirensis Distant, 1887) in Distant, 1906i: 138.

Nomenclature references (4)

  • Distant, W.L. (1887a) Descriptions of new species of Cicadidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (Ser. 5), 20, 226–231.
  • Distant, W.L. (1892b) A monograph of Oriental Cicadidae. West, Newman & Co.; R. Friedlander & Sohn. London; Berlin, xiv + 97–158 pp. + pls. x-xv.
  • 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
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

from Nilgiri Mountains (Western Ghats, Tamil Nadu, India)

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