I recently found a book called A monograph of oriental cicadidae in the Internet Archive. The A monograph of oriental cicadidae was authored by William Lucas Distant, and published in 1892 — that’s 116 years ago! The book contains plenty of text and illustrations, some of which I’ll include below:
Angamiana etherea
Cicada taglica
Cosmopsaltria tripurasura
Peciliopsaltria hampsoni
Terpnosia stipata
Tosena depicta
Tosena sibylla
Tosena splendida
Those last two would make killer tattoos.
Comment by Vincent J. Murphy — July 5, 2008 @ 1:16 pm
Yes, a great monograph- pretty costly. There are also plenty of hand-painted cicada illustrations in a couple of issues of Genera Insectorum(around the same period) – also contributed by WL Distant and illustrated by the reknown Philogene Wystman.
David.
Comment by David E — July 22, 2008 @ 4:44 pm