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World Auchenorrhyncha Database (WAD)
Species

Aola bindusara (Distant, 1881)

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (7)

  • Pomponia bindusara Distant, 1881b: 642.

    Holotype; male; BMNH(E) 1009459; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Myanmar: Upper Tenasserim

  • Aola bindusara (Distant, 1881) in Distant, 1905a: 70.
  • Hapsha [sic] bindusara (Distant, 1881) in Saha, Ghosh & Raychaudhuri, 2023: 108.
  • Aola bindusara (Distant, 1881) in Lee, 2025: 1054.

Nomenclature references (7)

  • Distant, W.L. (1881b) Descriptions of new species belonging to the homopterous family Cicadidae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1881, 627–648.
  • Distant, W.L. (1905a) Rhynochotal notes. -- XXIX. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Ser. 7), 15, 58–70.
  • Lee, Y.J. (2008a) A checklist of Cicadidae (Insecta: Hemiptera) from Vietnam, with some taxonomic remarks. Zootaxa, 1787, 1–27. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1787.1.1
  • Ahmed, Z. & Sanborn, A.F. (2010a) The cicada fauna of Pakistan including the description of four new species (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae). Zootaxa, 2516, 27–48.
  • 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
  • Saha, S., Ghosh, R. & Raychaudhuri, D. (2023) Cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Buxa Tiger Reserve, a forest of Dooars in the foothills of Eastern Himalaya, West Bengal, India. World Scientific News, 177, 103–117.
  • Lee, Y.J. (2025) A new species of Haphsa Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) from Northern Thailand, with a taxonomic review of Haphsa and its allied genera. Journal of Natural History, 59(13–16), 1049–1061. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2025.2474200
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

after Bindusara (r. c. 297 – c. 273 BCE), the second Mauryan emperor of Magadha in Ancient India

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Species1045