{"id":8110,"date":"2018-10-13T01:01:44","date_gmt":"2018-10-13T08:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=8110"},"modified":"2020-03-12T20:32:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T03:32:00","slug":"arunta-perulata-guerin-meneville-1831","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/arunta-perulata-guerin-meneville-1831\/","title":{"rendered":"Arunta perulata (Gu\u00e9rin-M\u00e9neville, 1831)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arunta perulata<\/em><\/strong> (Gu\u00e9rin-M\u00e9neville, 1831). Found in Australia<\/strong>. Known as a White Drummer<\/strong>. Like other members of the tribe Thophini, like Thopha colorata<\/em> (Orange Drummer) and Thopha saccata<\/em> (Double Drummer), they have massive sac-like tymbal covers, which is why they’re called drummers. <\/p>\n

Scientific classification:<\/strong>
\nFamily: Cicadidae
\nSubfamily: Cicadinae
\nTribe: Thophini
\nGenus: Arunta<\/em>
\nSpecies: Arunta perulata<\/em> (Gu\u00e9rin-M\u00e9neville, 1831)\t<\/p>\n

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Photo by David Emery.<\/p>\n

\"Arunta<\/p>\n

Arunta<\/em> genus description<\/strong> by W. L. Distant<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

\nCharacters. \u2014 Head transverse, moderately truncate in front of eyes, between eyes much narrower than base of mesonotum ; rostrum reaching the posterior coxae; pronotum moderate broad, its breadth considerably less than length of both pro- and mesonotum (including the basal cruciform elevation); tympana very largely developed and sac-like, their apices obliquely extending beyond the lateral margins of the abdomen and to about half its length; opercula very small, not extending to base of metasternum, placed wide apart, and with their apical margins convex; anterior femora incrassated and spined ; posterior tibiae with a few lateral fine spines; tegmina and wings talc-like, tegmina with eight apical areas.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

References:<\/h3>\n
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  1. The illustration and genus description comes from the journal Genera Insectorum<\/strong>, and a specific article from 1913<\/strong> by W. L. Distant titled Homoptera. Fam. Cicadidae, Subfam, Cicadinae.<\/strong> Read it on the Biodiversity Heritage Library website<\/a>. <\/li>\n
  2. Current species name verified using Allen Sanborn’s Catalogue of the Cicadoidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha)<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Arunta perulata (Gu\u00e9rin-M\u00e9neville, 1831). Found in Australia. Known as a White Drummer. Like other members of the tribe Thophini, like Thopha colorata (Orange Drummer) and Thopha saccata (Double Drummer), they have massive sac-like tymbal covers, which is why they’re called drummers. Scientific classification: Family: Cicadidae Subfamily: Cicadinae Tribe: Thophini Genus: Arunta Species: Arunta perulata (Gu\u00e9rin-M\u00e9neville, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142,8,365,417,398,415],"tags":[399],"class_list":["post-8110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arunta","category-australia","category-genera-insectorum","category-guerin-meneville","category-thophini","category-william-lucas-distant","tag-a-perulata"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8110","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=8110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}