Species

Cicadatra sankara (Distant, 1904)

Descendants and synonyms

Tibicen sankara Distant, 1904a: 675.
Syntype; male; 411979d8-6870-4b73-a63e-aa8e71003807; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); India, Uttarakhand: Chamasari, 5000 ft, V/1903, P.W. Mackinnon. Syntype; female; 07842012-3f79-4bb2-87fc-0548e9139f32; India, Uttarakhand: Chamasari, 5000 ft, V/1903, P.W. Mackinnon
Cicadatra sankana [sic] Distant, 1904 in Distant, 1906i: 132.

Cicadatra sankana [sic] Distant, 1904 (misspelling of Tibicen sankara Distant, 1904) in Distant, 1906i: 132.
Cicadatra sankara (Distant, 1904) in Distant, 1906b: 185.

Distant, W.L. (1904a) Additions to a knowledge of the family Cicadidae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1904, 667–676.
Distant, W.L. (1906b) Some undescribed species of Cicadidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Ser. 7), 17, 182–185.

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.
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 Sankar, a Hindu god, Lord Shiva

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