{"id":8148,"date":"2018-10-17T01:01:03","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T08:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=8148"},"modified":"2020-03-13T18:59:35","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T01:59:35","slug":"pycna-coelestia-distant-1904","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/pycna-coelestia-distant-1904\/","title":{"rendered":"Pycna coelestia Distant, 1904"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pycna coelesti<\/em>a<\/strong> Distant, 1904 is found in China.<\/p>\n

Scientific classification:<\/strong>
\nFamily: Cicadidae
\nSubfamily: Cicadinae
\nTribe: Platypleurini
\nGenus: Pycna<\/em>
\nSpecies: Pycna coelestia<\/em> Distant, 1904<\/p>\n

\"Pycna<\/p>\n

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

\nCharacters. \u2014 Head (including eyes) only about two-thirds the width of base of mesonotum, not truncate anteriorly, but obliquely deflected in front of eyes; pronotum transverse, the posterior margin about half the length of its vertex, the lateral margins ampliated, but not angulated, and scarcely extending over the base of tegmina ; mesonotum about as long as pronotum ; anterior femora tuberculously angulated near base and apex, posterior tibiae spinous on apical area; metasternum a little elevated and centrally sulcate; tympana well covered; abdomen short and robust; opercula short, very broad, their apices more or less convexly rounded ; rostrum reaching the posterior coxae; tegmina with the costal membrane much arched at base, dilated, and always as broad or very much broader than the costal area; basal cell very broad; ulnar veins widely separated at their bases.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not sure of the species, but this cicada belongs to the Pycna genus. Photo by Michel Chantraine:
\n\"Pycna<\/p>\n

References:<\/h3>\n
    \n
  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":"

    Pycna coelestia Distant, 1904 is found in China. Scientific classification: Family: Cicadidae Subfamily: Cicadinae Tribe: Platypleurini Genus: Pycna Species: Pycna coelestia Distant, 1904 Pynca genus description by W. L. Distant: Characters. \u2014 Head (including eyes) only about two-thirds the width of base of mesonotum, not truncate anteriorly, but obliquely deflected in front of eyes; pronotum […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[375,365,390,405,415],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china-locations","category-genera-insectorum","category-platypleurini","category-pycna","category-william-lucas-distant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8148","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=8148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}