{"id":8697,"date":"2018-12-07T01:01:58","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T08:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=8697"},"modified":"2020-05-01T20:55:55","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T03:55:55","slug":"terpnosia-psecas-walker-1850","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/terpnosia-psecas-walker-1850\/","title":{"rendered":"Terpnosia psecas (Walker, 1850)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Terpnosia psecas<\/em><\/strong> (Walker, 1850) is a cicada found in India, Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and Java (Indonesia). <\/p>\n<p><strong>Scientific classification:<\/strong><br \/>\nFamily: Cicadidae<br \/>\nSubfamily: Cicadinae<br \/>\nTribe: Psithyristriini<br \/>\nSubTribe:  Psithyristriina [Psithyr means &#8220;whispering&#8221; in Greek]<br \/>\nGenus: <em>Terpnosia<\/em><br \/>\nSpecies: <em>Terpnosia psecas<\/em> (Walker, 1850)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Terpnosia-psecas-Genera-Insectorum.jpg\" alt=\"Terpnosia psecas (Walker, 1850)\" width=\"356\" height=\"310\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8698\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Terpnosia-psecas-Genera-Insectorum.jpg 356w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Terpnosia-psecas-Genera-Insectorum-300x261.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 356px) 100vw, 356px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Terpnosia<\/em> genus description<\/strong> by <strong>W. L. Distant<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nCharacters. \u2014 Head about as long as breadth between eyes, deflected anteriorly, front not prominent; pronotum distinctly shorter than mesonotum, its lateral margins sinuate, with the posterior angles moderately lobalety produced; abdomen in male longer than space between apex of head and base of cruciform elevation; tympanal coverings both narrower and shorter than tympanal cavities; opercula in male short and transverse, usually not or scarcely extending beyond base of abdomen; anterior femora spined beneath; tegmina and wings hyaline, the first usually more or less maculate, with eight apical areas, and the basal cell longer than broad; wings with six apical areas.\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>Terpnosia psecas (Walker, 1850) is a cicada found in India, Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and Java (Indonesia). Scientific classification: Family: Cicadidae Subfamily: Cicadinae Tribe: Psithyristriini SubTribe: Psithyristriina [Psithyr means &#8220;whispering&#8221; in Greek] Genus: Terpnosia Species: Terpnosia psecas (Walker, 1850) Terpnosia genus description by W. L. Distant: Characters. \u2014 Head about as long as breadth between eyes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[420,365,69,80,898,536,548,415],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-walker","category-genera-insectorum","category-india","category-indonesia","category-psithyristriini","category-sri-lanka","category-terpnosia","category-william-lucas-distant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8697","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=8697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}