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World Auchenorrhyncha Database (WAD)
Species

Leptopsaltria samia (Walker, 1850)

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (5)

  • Dundubia samia Walker, 1850a: 77.

    Holotype; male; BMNH(E) 1009438; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); North India. From Mr. Warwick's collection

  • Leptopsaltria samia (Walker, 1850) in Distant, 1889a: 32.
  • Purana samia (Walker, 1850) in Chou, Lei, Li, Lu & Yao, 1997a: 229.
  • Pomponia samia (Walker, 1850) in Sanborn & Villet, 2014a: 366.

Nomenclature references (6)

  • Walker, F. (1850a) List of the specimens of homopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. London: Edward Newman, Vol. 1, 1–260. pl. 1–2.
  • Distant, W.L. (1889a) A monograph of Oriental Cicadidae. West, Newman & Co.; R. Friedlander & Sohn. London; Berlin. 1-48. pl. i-iv.
  • Kato, M. (1927a) A catalogue of Japanese Cicadidae, with descriptions of new genus, species and others. Transactions of the Natural History Society of Formosa, 17(88), 19–41.
  • 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]
  • Sanborn, A.F. & Villet, M.H. (2014a) Catalogue of the Cicadoidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). USA: Elsevier Science Publishing, 1001 pp.
  • 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 Samia, in Greek mythology, a daughter of Meander, one of the River Gods

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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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Species1045