{"id":3356,"date":"2013-01-15T20:50:04","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T03:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=3356"},"modified":"2024-07-20T09:31:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T16:31:45","slug":"tibicen-or-lyristes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/tibicen-or-lyristes\/","title":{"rendered":"Tibicen or Lyristes"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Tibicen by any other name would still sound as sweet…<\/p>\n

I always wondered why Lyristes plebejus<\/a> is also called Tibicen plebejus. <\/p>\n

It seems that there is a dispute as to whether the genus Tibicen<\/a> should actually be called Lyristes. A petition was made (back in the 1980s) to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature<\/a>, to change Tibicen to Lyristes. I learned this from the wonderful new book, The Cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae) of North America North of Mexico<\/strong> by Allen F. Sanborn and Maxine S. Heath (order it<\/a>). I checked the ICZN website, and the petition appears to fallen off their docket of open cases<\/a>. I also noticed that on European<\/a> and Japanese<\/a> websites, they use Lyristes. <\/p>\n

I personally hope the genus name doesn’t change for North American species — I would have to make a lot of changes on this website. Going through the name change<\/a> from Tibicen chloromera to Tibicen chloromerus to Tibicen tibcen, was bad enough. <\/p>\n

The root of the word Tibicen is flute player, and the root of the word Lyristes is lyre — both referring to musical instruments. (Frankly I think most Tibicen sound like power tools — I don’t know Latin for Black & Decker). <\/p>\n

BTW, this is a Lyristes plebejus (from Spain):
\n\"Lyristes
Photo by Iv\u00e1n Jes\u00fas Torresano Garc\u00eda.<\/p>\n

And this is a Lyristes flammatus (from Japan):
\n\"A.
Photo by Osamu Hikino<\/p>\n

And some day, this might be a Lyristes auletes (from North Carolina):
\n\"Neotibicen
Photo by Erin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Tibicen by any other name would still sound as sweet… I always wondered why Lyristes plebejus is also called Tibicen plebejus. It seems that there is a dispute as to whether the genus Tibicen should actually be called Lyristes. A petition was made (back in the 1980s) to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,7],"tags":[739],"class_list":["post-3356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lyristes","category-tibicen","tag-l-plebejus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3356","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=3356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}