{"id":7580,"date":"2018-05-13T08:41:55","date_gmt":"2018-05-13T15:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=7580"},"modified":"2020-03-13T18:38:17","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T01:38:17","slug":"what-is-the-largest-cicada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/what-is-the-largest-cicada\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the largest cicada?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The largest known cicada is the Megapomponia imperatoria (Westwood, 1842) of south-east Asia. The specimen in the photo below was captured in Malaysia and it&#8217;s wingspan measured 20 centimters\/7.9 inches. Other species might be larger in terms of weight, but I&#8217;m not sure. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/cicm001pomponiaimperatoria.jpg\" alt=\"Megapomponia imperatoria\" width=\"628\" height=\"314\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9569\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/cicm001pomponiaimperatoria.jpg 628w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/cicm001pomponiaimperatoria-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 628px) 100vw, 628px\" \/><br \/>Photo of a Megapomponia imperatoria (formerly Pomponia imperatoria) by Michel Chantraine.<\/p>\n<p>Other very large cicadas include the Bear Cicada of Japan (<a href=\"http:\/\/zikade.world.coocan.jp\/photo\/kumazemi\/kumazemi.html\">Cryptotympana facialis<\/a>), and Tacua speciosa of south-east Asia.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/DSC04577.jpg\" alt=\"Tacua speciosa (Illger, 1980) photos from Malaysia. The author of the image wishes to be anonymous.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/DSC04577.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/DSC04577-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/DSC04577-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/DSC04577-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><br \/>Tacua speciosa from Malaysia by anonymous photographer.<\/p>\n<p>The largest cicada in North America is the Megatibicen auletes:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Tibicen-auletes-female-Manchester-NJ.jpg\" alt=\"Megatibicen auletes, the largest cicada in North America\" width=\"640\" height=\"488\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Tibicen-auletes-female-Manchester-NJ.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Tibicen-auletes-female-Manchester-NJ-300x229.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><br \/>Northern Dusk-Singing Cicadas aka Megatibicen auletes. Photo by me.<\/p>\n<p>These very large cicadas are loud, but not the loudest. <a href=\"\/cicadas\/what-is-the-loudest-cicada\/\">Learn about loud cicadas.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The largest known cicada is the Megapomponia imperatoria (Westwood, 1842) of south-east Asia. The specimen in the photo below was captured in Malaysia and it&#8217;s wingspan measured 20 centimters\/7.9 inches. Other species might be larger in terms of weight, but I&#8217;m not sure. Photo of a Megapomponia imperatoria (formerly Pomponia imperatoria) by Michel Chantraine. Other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[342,312],"class_list":["post-7580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faqs","tag-m-auletes","tag-t-speciosa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7580","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=7580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}