{"id":8075,"date":"2018-09-28T18:54:30","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T01:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=8075"},"modified":"2019-02-05T21:42:52","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T04:42:52","slug":"ambragaeana-stellata-walker-1858","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/ambragaeana-stellata-walker-1858\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambragaeana stellata (Walker, 1858)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once known as Gaeana stellata<\/em><\/strong> — yes, its name has changed<\/strong> — Ambragaeana stellata<\/em><\/strong> (Walker, 1858) can be found in China, Thailand, India, and likey other nations the south-eastern part of Asia. Ambragaeana cicadas belong to a group nicknamed the “butterfly cicadas” because of the butterfly-like colors and patterns of their wings. <\/p>\n

“Stellata”, I believe, is derived from the Latin word for “star” — it doesn’t take much imagination to see the “stars” in the wings of this cicada. <\/p>\n

Scientific classification:<\/strong>
\nFamily: Cicadidae
\nSubfamily: Cicadinae
\nTribe: Gaeanini
\nSubTribe: Gaeanina
\nGenus: Ambragaeana<\/em>
\nSpecies: Ambragaeana stellata<\/em> (Walker, 1858)<\/p>\n

\"Ambragaeana
\nThe image says Gaeana stellata<\/em>, but the newest name for this cicada is Ambragaeana stellata<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"photo
Photo by Michel Chantraine.<\/p>\n

Worth noting: There are two sub-species of Ambragaeana<\/em>.<\/p>\n

References:<\/h3>\n
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  1. The illustration comes from the journal Genera Insectorum<\/strong>, and a specific article from 1914<\/strong> by W. L. Distant titled Homoptera. Fam. Cicadidae, Subfam, Gaeaninae.<\/strong> Read it on the Biodiversity Heritage Library website<\/a>. <\/li>\n
  2. Species name information\/verification comes from Allen Sanborn’s Catalogue of the Cicadoidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha)<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Once known as Gaeana stellata — yes, its name has changed — Ambragaeana stellata (Walker, 1858) can be found in China, Thailand, India, and likey other nations the south-eastern part of Asia. Ambragaeana cicadas belong to a group nicknamed the “butterfly cicadas” because of the butterfly-like colors and patterns of their wings. “Stellata”, I believe, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,375,420,380,365,69,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ambragaeana","category-china-locations","category-walker","category-gaeanini","category-genera-insectorum","category-india","category-thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8075","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=8075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}