{"id":8324,"date":"2018-10-24T20:20:13","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T03:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=8324"},"modified":"2018-10-10T19:49:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T02:49:15","slug":"thopha-sessiliba-distant-1892","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/thopha-sessiliba-distant-1892\/","title":{"rendered":"Thopha sessiliba Distant, 1892"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thopha sessiliba<\/em><\/strong> Distant, 1892 is found in northern Austalia<\/em> and is commonly known as the Northern Double Drummer<\/strong>. Like other members of the Thophini tribe, T. sessiliba<\/em> has prominent sack-like tymbal covers, from which they get their common name “drummers”. <\/p>\n

Scientific classification:<\/strong>
\nFamily: Cicadidae
\nSubfamily: Cicadinae
\nTribe: Thophini
\nGenus: Thopha<\/em>
\nSpecies: Thopha sessiliba<\/em> Distant, 1892<\/p>\n

\"Thopha<\/p>\n

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

\nCharacters. \u2014 Head short, broad, equal in width to apex of pronotum; eyes more or less pedunculated, prominent; ocelli four times more distant from eyes than from each other; apex of clavus acuminate; front destitute of a longitudinal sulcus; pronotum with the lateral margins almost truncate or slightly convex, widened forwardly; tegmina vitreous, basal area not twice longer than broad, interior ulnar area broadened towards apex; ulnar veins distant at base; wings vitreous, with six apical areas; opercula short, transverse; tympanal coverings very strongly developed and sac-like, projecting beyond the lateral abdominal margins in male.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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

    Thopha sessiliba Distant, 1892 is found in northern Austalia and is commonly known as the Northern Double Drummer. Like other members of the Thophini tribe, T. sessiliba has prominent sack-like tymbal covers, from which they get their common name “drummers”. Scientific classification: Family: Cicadidae Subfamily: Cicadinae Tribe: Thophini Genus: Thopha Species: Thopha sessiliba Distant, 1892 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,365,132,398,415],"tags":[444],"class_list":["post-8324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-genera-insectorum","category-thopha","category-thophini","category-william-lucas-distant","tag-t-sessiliba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8324","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=8324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}