{"id":8123,"date":"2018-10-12T01:01:31","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T08:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=8123"},"modified":"2024-08-17T12:56:23","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T19:56:23","slug":"koma-bombifrons-karsch-1890","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/koma-bombifrons-karsch-1890\/","title":{"rendered":"Koma bombifrons (Karsch, 1890)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Koma bombifrons<\/em><\/strong> (Karsch, 1890). Found in eastern Africa, specifically Kenya, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Scientific classification:<\/strong>
\nFamily: Cicadidae
\nSubfamily: Cicadinae
\nTribe: Platypleurini
\nGenus: Koma<\/em>
\nSpecies: Koma bombifrons<\/em> (Karsch, 1890)<\/p>\n

\"Koma<\/p>\n

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

\nCharacters. \u2014 Head (including eyes) wider than base of mesonotum, not truncate anteriorly. but frontally produced, about as long as pronotum (excluding its posterior margin); pronotum slightly shorter than mesonotum, its posterior margin about half the length of vertex, the lateral margins- moderately dilated, slightly angulated, but not reaching basal cell of tegmina ; anterior femora with one or more distinct spines on under surface; posterior tibiae with a few slender spines on apical areas; metasternum elevated and centrally sulcate; tympana large; opercula short, broad, in type the margins oblique; rostrum reaching the posterior coxae ; tegmina with the basal cell short and broad; ulnar veins well separated at their bases.\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":"

    Koma bombifrons (Karsch, 1890). Found in eastern Africa, specifically Kenya, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. Scientific classification: Family: Cicadidae Subfamily: Cicadinae Tribe: Platypleurini Genus: Koma Species: Koma bombifrons (Karsch, 1890) Koma genus description by W. L. Distant: Characters. \u2014 Head (including eyes) wider than base of mesonotum, not truncate anteriorly. but frontally produced, about as long as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[419,365,387,390,428,415,1010],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-karsch","category-genera-insectorum","category-koma","category-platypleurini","category-tanzania","category-william-lucas-distant","category-zimbabwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8123","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=8123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}