Species

Calcagninus nilgirensis (Distant, 1887)

Descendants and synonyms

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.

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)

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
Taxon	Valid names
Rank	Extant	Fossil	Invalid	Total
Species	1	0	2	3