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Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (1)

  • Bijaurana sita Distant, 1912b: 649.

    Holotype; male; BMNH(E) 1009608; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); India, Uttarakhand, former United Provinces

Nomenclature references (2)

  • Distant, W.L. (1912b) New genera and species of Rhynchota (Homoptera). Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (Ser. 8), 9, 640–652.
  • 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 Sita (Sanskrit: सीता; IAST: Sītā), a Hindu goddess and the female protagonist of the Hindu epic, Ramayana

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Species1001