{"id":8135,"date":"2018-10-08T01:01:13","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T08:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=8135"},"modified":"2018-10-09T04:37:14","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T11:37:14","slug":"munza-laticlavia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/munza-laticlavia\/","title":{"rendered":"Munza laticlavia"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are three subspecies of Munza laticlavia<\/em><\/strong>: M. laticlavia laticlavia (St\u00e5l, 1858), M. laticlavia lubberti<\/em> Schumacher, 1913 and M. laticlavia semitransparens<\/em> Schumacher, 1913. It is found in southern Africa, including the countries South Africa<\/strong> & Nambia<\/strong>. Perhaps Kenya too. <\/p>\n

Scientific classification:<\/strong>
\nFamily: Cicadidae
\nSubfamily: Cicadinae
\nTribe: Platypleurini
\nGenus: Munza<\/em>
\nSpecies: Munza laticlavia<\/em>
\nSubspecies: M. laticlavia laticlavia<\/em> (St\u00e5l, 1858)
\nSubspecies: M. laticlavia lubberti<\/em> Schumacher, 1913
\nSubspecies: M. laticlavia semitranspar<\/em>ens Schumacher, 1913<\/p>\n

Not sure which subspecies appears in this photo:
\n\"Munza<\/p>\n

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

\nCharacters. \u2014 Head (including eyes) a little wider than base of mesonotum, subtruncate and deflected in front of eyes; pronotum transverse, about as long as mesonotum, its posterior margin a little more than half the length of its vertex, its lateral margins dilated and a little angulated, but not reaching the basal cell of tegmina; anterior femora not spined ; posterior tibiae longly spined on their apical halves; metasternum a little elevated and centrally sulcate; tympanal coverings somewhat small ; opercula short, broad, their lateral and posterior margins a little oblique and sinuate ; rostrum reaching the posterior coxae ; tegmina with the basal cell broadened apically ; wings with the outer and posterior membrane Very broad, about one third their length.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

References:<\/h3>\n
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  1. \nThe 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. Species name information\/verification comes from Allen Sanborn’s Catalogue of the Cicadoidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha)<\/a><\/strong><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    There are three subspecies of Munza laticlavia: M. laticlavia laticlavia (St\u00e5l, 1858), M. laticlavia lubberti Schumacher, 1913 and M. laticlavia semitransparens Schumacher, 1913. It is found in southern Africa, including the countries South Africa & Nambia. Perhaps Kenya too. Scientific classification: Family: Cicadidae Subfamily: Cicadinae Tribe: Platypleurini Genus: Munza Species: Munza laticlavia Subspecies: M. laticlavia […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,421,365,391,636,390,166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stal","category-schumacher","category-genera-insectorum","category-munza","category-namibia","category-platypleurini","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8135","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=8135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}