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Changa sita (Distant, 1881)

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (7)

  • Cosmopsaltria sita Distant, 1881b: 636.

    Holotype; male; BMNH(E) 1009453; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); India, Maharashtra, former Bombay Province

  • Khimbya sita (Distant, 1881) in Distant, 1906i: 141.
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  • Haphsa sita (Distant, 1881) in Wang, Peng & Wei, 2021: 530.
  • Changa sita (Distant, 1881) in Lee, 2025: 1056.

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. (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.
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  • Lee, Y.J. (2009b) Taxonomic notes on the genus Haphsa (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) with descriptions of two new species. Florida Entomologist, 92(2), 330–337.
  • Lee, Y.J. (2016a) Erections of Changa gen. nov. and Songga gen. nov. of Aolina (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadinae: Dundubiini) with taxonomic notes and a synonymization. Zootaxa, 4084(4), 596–600. Available at http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4084.4.11
  • 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
  • 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
  • Wang, S., Peng, X. & Wei, C. (2021) A review of the cicada genus Haphsa Distant, 1905 with the description of one new species from China (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) and a phylogenetic analysis of Haphsa and its allies. Zootaxa, 4991(3), 523–538. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4991.3.5
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

after Sita (Sanskrit: सीता; IAST: Sītā), a Hindu goddess and the female protagonist of the Hindu epic, Ramayana

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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
species1045