{"id":8573,"date":"2018-11-22T01:01:20","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T08:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=8573"},"modified":"2018-10-10T19:04:24","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T02:04:24","slug":"cacama-maura-distant-1881","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/cacama-maura-distant-1881\/","title":{"rendered":"Cacama maura (Distant, 1881)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Cacama maura<\/em><\/strong> (Distant, 1881)\tis a cicada found in <strong>Mexico<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Scientific classification:<\/strong><br \/>\nFamily: Cicadidae<br \/>\nSubfamily: Cicadinae<br \/>\nTribe: Cryptotympanini<br \/>\nSubTribe: Cryptotympanina<br \/>\nGenus: <em>Cacama<\/em><br \/>\nSpecies: <em>Cacama maura<\/em> (Distant, 1881)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Cacama-maura-Genera-Insectorum.jpg\" alt=\"Cacama maura (Distant, 1881)\" width=\"640\" height=\"496\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Cacama-maura-Genera-Insectorum.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Cacama-maura-Genera-Insectorum-300x233.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Cacama<\/em> genus description<\/strong> by <strong>W. L. Distant<\/strong> in Genera Insectorum, 1913:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nCharacters. \u2014 Head (including eyes) little more than two thirds the breadth of base of mesonotum, anteriorly depressed, its length only a little more than half the breadth between eyes; pronotum considerably shorter than mesonotum, its lateral margins obliquely sinuate; mesonotum somewhat convexly gibbous; abdomen short, broad, convex above, its length equal to the space between apex of head and base of cruciform elevation, the lateral margins a little angulate at posterior segmental angles; tympana completely covered, lateral margins of the tympanal coverings subparallel to the abdominal margins; rostrum reaching or passing the posterior coxae ; metasternum very large; opercula about half the length of abdomen above, broad, their apical margins convexly rounded, their lateral margins almost straight; tegmina and wings (excepting base) hyaline, the first broad, their greatest width a little less than half their length, apical areas eight in number, the two lowermost small, subquadrangular.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>References:<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>The 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>Current species name verified using 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>Cacama maura (Distant, 1881) is a cicada found in Mexico. Scientific classification: Family: Cicadidae Subfamily: Cicadinae Tribe: Cryptotympanini SubTribe: Cryptotympanina Genus: Cacama Species: Cacama maura (Distant, 1881) Cacama genus description by W. L. Distant in Genera Insectorum, 1913: Characters. \u2014 Head (including eyes) little more than two thirds the breadth of base of mesonotum, anteriorly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,365,361,445,415],"tags":[526],"class_list":["post-8573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cacama","category-genera-insectorum","category-mexico","category-cryptotympanini","category-william-lucas-distant","tag-c-maura"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8573","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=8573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}