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species

Terpnosia psecas (Walker, 1850)

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (4)

  • Dundubia psecas Walker, 1850a: 65.

    Holotype; female; 03b87e36-5189-42e3-96ba-9964b7d3a3d1; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Indonesia: Java, Muir

  • Terpnosia psecas (Walker, 1850) in Distant, 1892d: 325.
  • Cicada psecas (Walker, 1850) in Kirby, 1893a: 180.
  • Yezoterpnosia psecas (Walker, 1850) in Kato, 1932a: 278.

Nomenclature references (5)

  • Distant, W.L. (1892d) On some undescribed Cicadidae, with synonymical notes. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (Ser. 6), 9, 313–327.
  • Kato, M. (1932a) Monograph of Cicadidae. Sanseido. Tokyo, 450 pp. [in Japanese]
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  • Kirby, W.F. (1893a) Rejoinder to Dr. Bergroth and Mr. Distant. Wiener Entomologische Zeitung, 12, 176–180.
  • 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
  • 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.
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

after Psecas, in Greek mythology, a nymph in the train of Artemis

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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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