Species Gelidea torrida (Erichson, 1842)

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• Cicada torrida Erichson, W.F. 1842. Beitrag zur Insecten-fauna von Vandiemensland, mit besonderer Berucksichtigung der geographischen Verbreitung der Insecten. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 8(1): 83-287, pls 4, 5 [286].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMHB ♂ ♀, locality unknown.
• Cicada basiflamma Walker, F. 1850. List of the specimens of homopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part 1. London : British Museum pp.1–260. [170].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH ♂ ♀, Van Dieman's Land; BMNH ♂ ♀, New Holland.
• Cicada connexa Walker, F. 1850. List of the specimens of homopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part 1. London : British Museum pp.1–260. [173].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♂, New Holland.
• Cicada damater Walker, F. 1850. List of the specimens of homopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part 1. London : British Museum pp.1–260. [178].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, New Holland.
• Melampsalta spreta Goding, F.W. & Froggatt, W.W. 1904. Monograph of the Australian Cicadidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 29(3): 561-670, pls xviii, xix [647].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV ♂, TAS.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Moulds, M.S. 2012. A review of the genera of Australian cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea). Zootaxa 3287: 1-262 [74]

Generic Combinations

• Melampsalta damater (Walker, 1850). —
  Stål, C. 1862. Synonymiska och systematiska anteckningar öfver Hemiptera. Öfversigt af Kongelige Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, Stockholm 19(9): 479-504 [484]
• Melampsalta spreta (Goding & Froggatt, 1904) [male, not female]. —
  Goding, F.W. & Froggatt, W.W. 1904. Monograph of the Australian Cicadidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 29(3): 561-670, pls xviii, xix [635]
• Cicadetta spreta (Goding & Froggatt, 1904). —
  Metcalf, Z.P. 1963. General Catalogue of the Homoptera. Fasc. 8. Cicadoidea, in two parts. Raleigh : University of North Carolina State College 1411 pp. [388-389]
• Gelidea torrida (Erichson, 1842). —
  Moulds, M.S. 2012. A review of the genera of Australian cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea). Zootaxa 3287: 1-262 [75, 112]
• Melampsalta torrida (Erichson, 1842). —
  Goding, F.W. & Froggatt, W.W. 1904. Monograph of the Australian Cicadidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 29(3): 561-670, pls xviii, xix [631]
• Cicadetta torrida (Erichson, 1842). —
  Dugdale, J. 1972. Genera of New Zealand Cicadidae [Homoptera]. New Zealand Journal of Science 14(4): 856-882 [877, 878]
• Cicadetta torrida (Erichson, 1842) [Cicadetta (Tettigetta) torrida]. —
  Boulard, M. 1991. Cigales colligées lors des "Voyages de découvertes" conduits par J. Dumont d'Urville. Description de Poecilopsaltria durvillei, n. sp. (Hom. Cicadoidea, Cicadidae). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 96: 117-124 [119]

Distribution

States

Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Open woodland.

History of changes