{"id":8690,"date":"2018-12-06T01:01:14","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T08:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=8690"},"modified":"2018-10-10T18:38:45","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T01:38:45","slug":"lethama-locusta-walker-1850","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/lethama-locusta-walker-1850\/","title":{"rendered":"Lethama locusta (Walker, 1850)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Lethama locusta<\/em> (Walker, 1850)<\/strong> is a cicada found in <strong>India<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Scientific classification:<\/strong><br \/>\nFamily: Cicadidae<br \/>\nSubfamily: Cicadinae<br \/>\nTribe: Dundubiini<br \/>\nSubTribe: Cosmopsaltriaria<br \/>\nGenus: <em>Lethama<\/em><br \/>\nSpecies: <em>Lethama locusta<\/em> (Walker, 1850)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Lethama-locusta-Genera-Insectorum.jpg\" alt=\"Lethama  locusta (Walker, 1850)\" width=\"417\" height=\"309\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8691\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Lethama-locusta-Genera-Insectorum.jpg 417w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Lethama-locusta-Genera-Insectorum-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 417px) 100vw, 417px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Lethama<\/em> genus description by <strong>W. L. Distant<\/strong> in Genera Insectorum, 1914:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nCharacters &#8211; lead horizontal, As long as space between eyes, not anteriorly deflected, front very prominent, margins of front and ver\/ex obliquely sub-continuous; pronotum as long as mesonotum, its lateral margins oblique, sinuate, obscurely dentate; abdomen considerably longer than space between apex of head and base of cruciform elevation; tympana imperfectly covered, the flaps shorter and narrower than the tympanal cavities; rostrum about reaching the posterior coxae; anterior femora armed beneath with two or three strong spines; opercula extending to more than half the length of the abdomen, sinuate, wide apart and on the lateral abdominal areas; tegmina broad, their greatest breadth more than one-third of their length, apical areas eight, basal cell much longer than broad.\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>Lethama locusta (Walker, 1850) is a cicada found in India. Scientific classification: Family: Cicadidae Subfamily: Cicadinae Tribe: Dundubiini SubTribe: Cosmopsaltriaria Genus: Lethama Species: Lethama locusta (Walker, 1850) Lethama genus description by W. L. Distant in Genera Insectorum, 1914: Characters &#8211; lead horizontal, As long as space between eyes, not anteriorly deflected, front very prominent, margins [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[450,420,365,69,546,415],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dundubiini","category-walker","category-genera-insectorum","category-india","category-lethama","category-william-lucas-distant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8690","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=8690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}