species

Huechys sanguinea (De Geer, 1773)

Descendants and synonyms

Cicada sanguinea De Geer, 1773a: 221.
Holotype; adult; 3af7c775-dee6-4ebe-806c-e2c7458e4af0; deposited at: Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet (NRS); China, II.1916; coll. A. Jacobi

De Geer, C. (1773a) Cinquième mémoire. Des cigales. In Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des Insects. Pierre Hesselberg, Stockholm. Vol. 3, pp. 158–228, pls. 11–12, 32–33. [696 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:

Latin: bloody, blood-red