species

Indopurana morrisi (Distant, 1892)

Descendants and synonyms

Leptopsaltria morrisi Distant, 1892b: 101.
Holotype; male; BMNH(E) 1009417; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); India, Tamil Nadu, former Madras Province: Shivarai Hills, A.W. Morris
Purana morrisi (Distant, 1892) in Distant, 1906i: 92.

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.

Lee, Y.J. (2024) Redescription of Purana Distant resulting in four new genera of Puranina (Cicadidae, Leptopsaltriini). Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity, 17(3), 573–579. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.japb.2024.01.012
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:

in honor of A.W. Morris, the collector of the type specimen

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