{"id":8302,"date":"2018-10-21T01:01:54","date_gmt":"2018-10-21T08:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=8302"},"modified":"2018-10-10T19:53:26","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T02:53:26","slug":"taona-versicolor-distant-1909","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/taona-versicolor-distant-1909\/","title":{"rendered":"Taona versicolor Distant, 1909"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Taona versicolor<\/em><\/strong> Distant, 1909, is found in <strong>China<\/strong>. Like other members of the tribe <em>Gaeanini<\/em>, its wings are colorful and reminiscent of butterflies. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Scientific classification:<\/strong><br \/>\nFamily: Cicadidae<br \/>\nSubfamily: Cicadinae<br \/>\nTribe: Gaeanini<br \/>\nSubTribe: Gaeanina<br \/>\nGenus: <em>Taona<\/em><br \/>\nSpecies: <em>Taona versicolor<\/em> Distant, 1909<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Taona-versicolor-genera-insector.jpg\" alt=\"Taona versicolor Distant, 1909\" width=\"631\" height=\"855\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Taona-versicolor-genera-insector.jpg 631w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Taona-versicolor-genera-insector-221x300.jpg 221w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 631px) 100vw, 631px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Taona<\/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 and as long as pronotum, the front not obliquely deflected but horizontally produced in front of and a little below the anterior margin of the vertex; ocelli somewhat close together near middle of vertex; face prominent, somewhat compressed, strongly transversely ridged; clypeus strongly compressed and reaching the anterior coxae; pronotum about as long as mesonotum, its lateral margins nearly straight; rostrum- reaching the posterior cox<e; anterior femora strongly spined beneath; tegmina and wings opaque, tegmina with their greatest breadth more than one third their length, apical areas eight, the apical margin oblique, the apex subangulate. \n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>References:<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>The illustration and description comes from the journal <strong>Genera Insectorum<\/strong>, and a specific article from <strong>1914<\/strong> by W. L. Distant titled <strong>Homoptera. Fam. Cicadidae, Subfam, Gaeaninae.<\/strong> Read it on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biodiversitylibrary.org\/page\/33769230#page\/9\/mode\/1up\">the Biodiversity Heritage Library website<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>Species name 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>Taona versicolor Distant, 1909, is found in China. Like other members of the tribe Gaeanini, its wings are colorful and reminiscent of butterflies. Scientific classification: Family: Cicadidae Subfamily: Cicadinae Tribe: Gaeanini SubTribe: Gaeanina Genus: Taona Species: Taona versicolor Distant, 1909 Taona genus description by W. L. Distant: Characters. \u2014 Head (including eyes) about as wide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[375,380,365,436,415],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china-locations","category-gaeanini","category-genera-insectorum","category-taona","category-william-lucas-distant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8302","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=8302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}