{"id":21008,"date":"2025-03-27T17:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T00:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=21008"},"modified":"2025-03-31T19:47:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T02:47:16","slug":"megatibicen-pronotalis-hesperiu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/megatibicen-pronotalis-hesperiu\/","title":{"rendered":"Megatibicen pronotalis hesperiu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like there is a new sub-species of Megatibicen pronotalis, to go with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/megatibicen-pronotalis-pronotalis-davis-1938\/\">Megatibicen pronotalis pronotalis<\/a> (Davis, 1938) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/megatibicen-pronotalis-walkeri-metcalf-1955-aka-walkers-cicada\/\">Megatibicen pronotalis walkeri<\/a> (Metcalf, 1955) called Megatibicen pronotalis hesperiu. I am going to guess that &#8216;hesperiu&#8217; refers to the Greek word for evening or western. If it&#8217;s western, maybe the hesperiu is an offshoot of <a href=\"https:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/857917\">M. pronotalis pronotalis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As on 3\/27 I have not read the paper. You can access it here <a href=\"https:\/\/mapress.com\/zt\/article\/view\/zootaxa.5609.4.2\">https:\/\/mapress.com\/zt\/article\/view\/zootaxa.5609.4.2<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See also the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/the-cicadas-of-north-america-book\/\">The Cicadas of North America Book<\/a> which inspired the description of this new cicada species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like there is a new sub-species of Megatibicen pronotalis, to go with Megatibicen pronotalis pronotalis (Davis, 1938) and Megatibicen pronotalis walkeri (Metcalf, 1955) called Megatibicen pronotalis hesperiu. I am going to guess that &#8216;hesperiu&#8217; refers to the Greek word for evening or western. If it&#8217;s western, maybe the hesperiu is an offshoot of M. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[178,316,174],"tags":[709],"class_list":["post-21008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allen-f-sanborn","category-megatibicen","category-united-states","tag-m-pronotalis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21008","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=21008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}