{"id":8957,"date":"2019-01-18T01:01:19","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T08:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=8957"},"modified":"2018-10-09T20:44:25","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T03:44:25","slug":"champaka-meyeri-distant-1883","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/champaka-meyeri-distant-1883\/","title":{"rendered":"Champaka meyeri (Distant, 1883)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Champaka meyeri<\/em><\/strong> (Distant, 1883) is a cicada found in Indonesia<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Champaka meyeri<\/em> was formerly known as Cosmopsaltria majuscula<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Scientific classification:<\/strong>
\nFamily: Cicadidae
\nSubfamily: Cicadinae
\nTribe: Dundubiini
\nSubTribe: Dundubiina
\nGenus: Champaka<\/em>
\nSpecies: Champaka meyeri<\/em> (Distant, 1883)<\/p>\n

\"Champaka<\/p>\n

Species (Cosmopsaltria majuscula<\/em>) description from A Monograph of Oriental Cicadas<\/strong> by W.L. Distant:<\/p>\n

\nBody above warm-ochraceous. Head with the front, \u2014 excepting base and apex, \u2014 the area of the ocelli, and a larger spot on inner margin of eyes, dark castaneous; eyes ochraceous, with their inner area olivaceous. Pronotum with a broad central longitudinal castaneous fascia and a small castaneous spot near anterior lateral margin. Mesonotum with five blackish fasciae, the central one very slender and joining a triangular fascia in front of basal cruciform elevation, on each side of the central fascia is a short and broader one, and the lateral fasciae are long, broad and slightly curved. Abdomen above ochraceous. Body beneath ochraceous; the face blackish, with a central ochraceous spot near anterior margin, and a black marginal spot between eyes and face; legs pale castaneous, the inner margins of anterior femora blackish, anterior and intermediate tibiae and tarsi somewhat darker castaneous, the posterior tarsi ochraceous. <\/p>\n

Tegmina and wings pale hyaline, the venation ochraceous, but becoming fuscous towards apical areas; the tegmina with the costal margin fuscous beyond base of upper ulnar area, and the transverse veins at bases of second and third apical areas infuscated. <\/p>\n

The body is long and broad; the rostrum reaches the posterior coxae; the opercula are slender and placed widely apart, concave on each side beyond base, but very slightly so outwardly, the apices rounded and reaching the fourth abdominal segment.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

References:<\/h3>\n
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  1. The illustration, description and location information comes from A Monograph of Oriental Cicadas<\/strong> by W. L. Distant. 1889-1892. Read it on the Biodiversity Heritage Library website<\/a>. <\/li>\n
  2. Species name information comes from Allen Sanborn’s Catalogue of the Cicadoidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha)<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Champaka meyeri (Distant, 1883) is a cicada found in Indonesia. Champaka meyeri was formerly known as Cosmopsaltria majuscula. Scientific classification: Family: Cicadidae Subfamily: Cicadinae Tribe: Dundubiini SubTribe: Dundubiina Genus: Champaka Species: Champaka meyeri (Distant, 1883) Species (Cosmopsaltria majuscula) description from A Monograph of Oriental Cicadas by W.L. Distant: Body above warm-ochraceous. Head with the front, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[528,450,80,554,415],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-champaka","category-dundubiini","category-indonesia","category-a-monograph-of-oriental-cicadidae","category-william-lucas-distant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8957","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=8957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}