{"id":8283,"date":"2018-10-19T01:01:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T08:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=8283"},"modified":"2026-02-08T14:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T21:09:08","slug":"pachypsaltria-cinctomaculata-stal-1854","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/pachypsaltria-cinctomaculata-stal-1854\/","title":{"rendered":"Pachypsaltria cinctomaculata (St\u00e5l, 1854)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pachypsaltria cinctomaculata<\/em><\/strong> (St\u00e5l, 1854) is found in Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Venuezela<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Scientific classification:<\/strong>
\nFamily: Cicadidae
\nSubfamily: Cicadinae
\nTribe: Cicadatrini
\nGenus: Pachypsaltria<\/em>
\nSpecies: Pachypsaltria<\/em> cinctomaculata (St\u00e5l, 1854)<\/p>\n

\"Pachypsaltria<\/p>\n

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

\nCharacters. \u2014 Head including eyes a little more than half the width of base of mesonotum, the front subconically produced, about as long as vertex, head obliquely depressed, eyes oblique, slightly passing the anterior pronotal angles; face moderately globose, not longitudinally sulcate; rostrum passing the posterior coxas; pronotum shorter than mesonotum, its posterior margin nearly twice as broad as anterior margin, the lateral margins dentately sinuate; mesonotum shorter than head and pronotum together, convex; abdomen short, about as long as head and pronotum together; tympanal orifices inwardly exposed; opercula short, broad, scarcely extending beyond base of abdomen: body pilose, marginally longly so; anterior femora not spined beneath; tegmina more than twice longer than broad, apical areas eight; wings with six apical areas.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Pachy (Greek) means thick, and psalt comes from “psalter” (Greek), which means harp player. Pachypsaltria = thick harp player. <\/p>\n

References:<\/h3>\n
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  1. The illustration and description comes from the journal Genera Insectorum<\/strong>, and a specific article from 1914<\/strong> by W. L. Distant titled Homoptera. Fam. Cicadidae, Subfam, Gaeaninae.<\/strong> Read it on the Biodiversity Heritage Library website<\/a>. <\/li>\n
  2. Species name verification comes from Allen Sanborn’s Catalogue of the Cicadoidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha)<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Pachypsaltria cinctomaculata (St\u00e5l, 1854) is found in Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Venuezela. Scientific classification: Family: Cicadidae Subfamily: Cicadinae Tribe: Cicadatrini Genus: Pachypsaltria Species: Pachypsaltria cinctomaculata (St\u00e5l, 1854) Pachypsaltria genus description by W. L. Distant: Characters. \u2014 Head including eyes a little more than half the width of base of mesonotum, the front subconically produced, about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[458,418,513,520,351,365,433,649,415],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bolivia","category-stal","category-cicadatrini","category-colombia","category-ecuador","category-genera-insectorum","category-pachypsaltria","category-venezuela","category-william-lucas-distant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8283","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=8283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21547,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8283\/revisions\/21547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}