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Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (5)

  • Pomponia madhava Distant, 1881b: 644.

    Holotype; male; BMNH(E) 1009549; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); India: Assam

  • Terpnosia madhava (Distant, 1881) in Distant, 1892b: 141.
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  • Euterpnosia madhavea [sic] Distant, 1881 in Chou, Lei, Li, Lu & Yao, 1997a: 200.
  • Euterpnosia madhavea [sic] Distant, 1881 (misspelling of Pomponia madhava Distant, 1881) in Chou, Lei, Li, Lu & Yao, 1997a: 200.

Nomenclature references (5)

  • Chou, I., Lei, Z.-R., Li, L., Lu, X.-L. & Yao, W. (1997a) The Cicadidae of China (Homoptera: Cicadoidea). Tianze Eldoneio, Hong Kong, 380 pp., 16 plts. [in Chinese]
  • Distant, W.L. (1881b) Descriptions of new species belonging to the homopterous family Cicadidae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1881, 627–648.
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  • Distant, W.L. (1892b) A monograph of Oriental Cicadidae. West, Newman & Co.; R. Friedlander & Sohn. London; Berlin, xiv + 97–158 pp. + pls. x-xv.
  • Hayashi, M. (1978c) Ergebnisse der Bhutan-Expedition 1972 des Naturhistorischen Museums in Basel. Homoptera: Fam. Cicadidae. Entomologica Basiliensia, 3, 57–65.
  • 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:

after Madhava (Sanskrit: माधव, romanized: Madhava), one of the primary epithets of Vishnu and Krishna; word Madhava in Sanskrit is a vṛddhi derivation of the word Madhu (Sanskrit: मधु): honey

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Species1034