Species

Changa sita (Distant, 1881)

Descendants and synonyms

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.

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.

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

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	4	5