{"id":8607,"date":"2018-11-29T01:01:55","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T08:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=8607"},"modified":"2018-10-10T18:51:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T01:51:55","slug":"meimuna-gamameda-distant-1902","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/meimuna-gamameda-distant-1902\/","title":{"rendered":"Meimuna gamameda (Distant, 1902)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Meimuna gamameda<\/em><\/strong> (Distant, 1902) is a cicada found in <strong>Sri Lanka<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scientific classification:<\/strong><br \/>\nFamily: Cicadidae<br \/>\nSubfamily: Cicadinae<br \/>\nTribe: Dundubiini<br \/>\nSubTribe: Cosmopsaltriaria<br \/>\nGenus: <em>Meimuna<\/em><br \/>\nSpecies: <em>Meimuna gamameda<\/em> (Distant, 1902)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Meimuna-gamameda-Genera-Insectorim.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"475\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8608\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Meimuna-gamameda-Genera-Insectorim.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Meimuna-gamameda-Genera-Insectorim-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Meimuna<\/em> genus description<\/strong> by <strong>W. L. Distant<\/strong> in Genera Insectorum, 1913:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nCharacters. \u2014 Head (including eyes) about as broad as base of mesonotum, shorter than breadth between eyes, lateral margins obliquely continuous to face or very slightly sinuate; pronotum distinctly shorter than mesonotum, its lateral margins distinctly and generally acutely toothed before middle; abdomen considerably longer than space between apex of head and base of cruciform elevation; tympana covered, tympanal flaps about as long as broad; rostrum reaching the posterior coxae; opercula obliquely divergent, sometimes very short; tegmina and wings hyaline.\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<p><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meimuna gamameda (Distant, 1902) is a cicada found in Sri Lanka. Scientific classification: Family: Cicadidae Subfamily: Cicadinae Tribe: Dundubiini SubTribe: Cosmopsaltriaria Genus: Meimuna Species: Meimuna gamameda (Distant, 1902) Meimuna genus description by W. L. Distant in Genera Insectorum, 1913: Characters. \u2014 Head (including eyes) about as broad as base of mesonotum, shorter than breadth between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[450,365,509,536,415],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dundubiini","category-genera-insectorum","category-meimuna","category-sri-lanka","category-william-lucas-distant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8607","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=8607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}