{"id":19476,"date":"2024-01-15T12:58:31","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T19:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=19476"},"modified":"2024-01-16T09:41:25","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T16:41:25","slug":"a-platypleura-kaempferi-maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/a-platypleura-kaempferi-maybe\/","title":{"rendered":"A Platypleura kaempferi"},"content":{"rendered":"

This cicada is a Platypleura kaempferi<\/strong>. The photo comes from us from Richard Newfrock. Platypleura kaempferi is a member of the tribe Platypleurini. P. kaempfer is found in China, South Korea, Japan and other locations — even Poland (but that cicada was likely transported along with produce or in the root ball of a plant). Platypleura means flat\/broad sides, and kaempferi likely refers to Emil Kaempfer or Kaempfer’s woodpecker, whose wing resembles the wing of the cicada.<\/p>\n

There are three species of Platypleura kaempferi1<\/sup> (I don’t know what distinguishes them. I don’t see the separate subspecies on iNaturalist either):<\/p>\n

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  1. P. kaempferi brevipennis Naruse, 1983, which seems to be found in Japan.<\/li>\n
  2. P. kaempferi ridleyana Distant, 1905, which seems to be found exclusively in the Malay peninsula.<\/li>\n
  3. P. kaempferi kaempferi (Fabricius, 1794), which is found throughout Asia.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \"Platypleura\"<\/p>\n

    \"Platypleura\"<\/p>\n

    Here’s the iNaturalist collection of Platypleura kaempferi photos<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    Here’s a comparison of the wing of Kaempfer’s Woodpecker with out possible Platypleura kaempferi:<\/p>\n

    \"Wing<\/p>\n

    Although the woodpecker and cicada resemble each other, Yasumasa Saisho<\/a> let us know that Platypleura kaempferi was described by the German biologist Engelbert K\u00e4mpfer, and its scientific name is derived from it.<\/p>\n

    Richard Newfrock took the photo of the cicada, and Joao Quental<\/a> took the photo of Kaempfer’s Woodpecker (Celeus obrieni, Caxias, Maranh\u00e3o, Brasil) which is under a CC BY 2.0 license<\/a>. <\/p>\n

    1<\/sup> Catalogue of the Cicadoidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). DOI: http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/B978-0-12-416647-9.00001-2 © 2014 Elsevier Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    This cicada is a Platypleura kaempferi. The photo comes from us from Richard Newfrock. Platypleura kaempferi is a member of the tribe Platypleurini. P. kaempfer is found in China, South Korea, Japan and other locations — even Poland (but that cicada was likely transported along with produce or in the root ball of a plant). […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,390,670],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-platypleura","category-platypleurini","category-richard-newfrock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}