{"id":8580,"date":"2018-11-23T01:01:39","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T08:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=8580"},"modified":"2018-10-10T19:03:34","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T02:03:34","slug":"champaka-viridimaculata-distant-1889","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/champaka-viridimaculata-distant-1889\/","title":{"rendered":"Champaka viridimaculata (Distant, 1889)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Champaka viridimaculata<\/em><\/strong> (Distant, 1889) is a cicada found on Borneo (Brunei, Malaysia, Indonesia). Viridimaculata means green spotted in Latin — perhaps that is a reference to the green coloring in the cells of the wings near its body. <\/p>\n

Scientific classification:<\/strong>
\nFamily: Cicadidae
\nSubfamily: Cicadinae
\nTribe: Dundubiini
\nSubTribe: Dundubiina
\nGenus: Champaka<\/em>
\nSpecies: Champaka viridimaculata<\/em> (Distant, 1889)\t<\/p>\n

\"Champaka<\/p>\n

Champaka<\/em> genus description<\/strong> by W. L. Distant<\/strong> in Genera Insectorum, 1913:<\/p>\n

\nCharacters. \u2014 Head (including eyes) considerably broader than base of mesonotum, its length about equal to breadth between eyes, lateral margins of front and vertex almost obliquely in line; pronotum about as long as head, its lateral margins armed with a distinct medial spine ; mesonotum moderately tumid ; abdomen considerably longer than space between apex of head and base of cruciform elevation ; tympana covered, tympanal coverings broader than long; opercula short. just reaching basal abdominal segment, laterally oblique and thus exposing the marginal areas of the cavities rostrum reaching the posterior coxae; anterior femora strongly spined beneath ; tegmina and wings hyaline, the first considerably longer than the body and with its greatest breadth considerably less than a third of its length; apical areas eight; basal cell longer than broad.\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":"

    Champaka viridimaculata (Distant, 1889) is a cicada found on Borneo (Brunei, Malaysia, Indonesia). Viridimaculata means green spotted in Latin — perhaps that is a reference to the green coloring in the cells of the wings near its body. Scientific classification: Family: Cicadidae Subfamily: Cicadinae Tribe: Dundubiini SubTribe: Dundubiina Genus: Champaka Species: Champaka viridimaculata (Distant, 1889) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[515,528,450,365,415],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borneo","category-champaka","category-dundubiini","category-genera-insectorum","category-william-lucas-distant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8580","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=8580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}