{"id":8144,"date":"2018-09-30T07:47:38","date_gmt":"2018-09-30T14:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=8144"},"modified":"2025-08-30T06:50:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T13:50:29","slug":"polyneura-ducalis-westwood-1840","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/polyneura-ducalis-westwood-1840\/","title":{"rendered":"Polyneura ducalis Westwood, 1840"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Polyneura ducalis<\/em><\/strong> Westwood, 1840, is found in China, Tibet, Indonesia, Burma, Nepal, India, and likely more nations in the region. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Scientific classification: <\/strong><br \/>\nFamily: Cicadidae<br \/>\nSubfamily: Cicadinae<br \/>\nTribe: Polyneurini<br \/>\nSubTribe: Polyneurina<br \/>\nGenus: <em>Polyneura<\/em><br \/>\nSpecies: <em>Polyneurina ducalis<\/em> Westwood, 1840<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Polyneura-ducalis-Genera-Insectorum-1913.jpg\" alt=\"Polyneura ducalis Westwood, 1840\" width=\"640\" height=\"529\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Polyneura-ducalis-Genera-Insectorum-1913.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Polyneura-ducalis-Genera-Insectorum-1913-300x248.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Polyneura<\/em> genus description<\/strong> by <strong>W. L. Distant<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nCharacters. \u2014 Head including eyes about as wide as base of mesonotum, but narrower than pronotum, ocelli further apart from eyes than from each other, front obliquely depressed; pronotum longer than mesonotum, its lateral margins ampliated and medially shortly angulate; abdomen longer than space between apex of head and base of cruciform elevation; tympanal orifices completely covered; opercula short and broad; meso- and metasterna centrality sulcate; tegmina opaque with the venation dense and furcate, reticulate towards apex, all the areas numerous and ill-defined.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Photo from my collection:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Tribe-Polyneurini-Polyneura-ducalis.jpg\" alt=\"Polyneura ducalis\" width=\"800\" height=\"542\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Tribe-Polyneurini-Polyneura-ducalis.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Tribe-Polyneurini-Polyneura-ducalis-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Tribe-Polyneurini-Polyneura-ducalis-768x520.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>References:<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>\nThe illustration and genus description comes from the journal <strong>Genera Insectorum<\/strong>, and a specific article from <strong>1913<\/strong> by W. L. Distant titled <strong>Homoptera. Fam. Cicadidae, Subfam, Cicadinae.<\/strong> Read it on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biodiversitylibrary.org\/item\/223337#page\/9\/mode\/1up\">the Biodiversity Heritage Library website<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Species name information\/verification comes from Allen Sanborn&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/B9780124166479000012?via%3Dihub\">Catalogue of the Cicadoidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha)<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polyneura ducalis Westwood, 1840, is found in China, Tibet, Indonesia, Burma, Nepal, India, and likely more nations in the region. Scientific classification: Family: Cicadidae Subfamily: Cicadinae Tribe: Polyneurini SubTribe: Polyneurina Genus: Polyneura Species: Polyneurina ducalis Westwood, 1840 Polyneura genus description by W. L. Distant: Characters. \u2014 Head including eyes about as wide as base of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[467,375,365,69,80,431,645,403,400,415],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-burma","category-china-locations","category-genera-insectorum","category-india","category-indonesia","category-westwood","category-nepal","category-polyneura","category-polyneurini","category-william-lucas-distant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8144","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=8144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}