{"id":9580,"date":"2019-03-23T01:01:28","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T08:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=9580"},"modified":"2019-02-09T12:07:30","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T19:07:30","slug":"platypleura-hampsoni-distant-1887","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/platypleura-hampsoni-distant-1887\/","title":{"rendered":"Platypleura hampsoni (Distant, 1887)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Platypleura hampsoni<\/strong> is a cicada found in <strong>India<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/peciliopsaltria_hampsoni.jpg\" alt=\"Platypleura hampsoni\" width=\"600\" height=\"257\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/peciliopsaltria_hampsoni.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/peciliopsaltria_hampsoni-300x129.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Image and Description from <strong>A Monograph of Oriental Cicadas<\/strong> by W. L. Distant. 1889-1892. Read it on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biodiversitylibrary.org\/item\/35302#page\/11\/mode\/1up\">the Biodiversity Heritage Library website<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nMale. Head luteous; front with a number of black linear markings; vertex with a transverse, narrow, black fascia between the eyes, and with a central black spot containing the ocelli. Pronotum greenish-ochraceous, the disk with the following black markings: \u2014 a central I-shaped spot, on each side of which are some oblique linear markings; the lateral dilated margins are black, and the anterior margin is narrow \u2014 and the posterior margin broadly\u2014 dull reddish ochraceous. Mesonotum greenish-ochraceous, with the following black spots: \u2014 four obconical from anterior margin, of which the central two are smallest; and a large, oblong, discal spot, with a small partly rounded spot on each side of it; the basal cruciform elevation dull reddish ochraceous. Abdomen above black. Head beneath, with the face black, marked with luteous transverse lines; sternum somewhat ochraceously pilose; abdomen beneath black, the segmental margins ochraceous, the anal appendage of the same color; legs castaneous, streaked or spotted with piceous and luteous. Rostrum black, the basal portion luteous. <\/p>\n<p>Tegmina pale hyaline, with the venation brown, the costal membrane greenish, the basal third somewhat opaque, with darker transverse markings and small basal black markings; a double irregular series of dark brown spots cross the tegmina at about center, a dark brown fascia at bases of upper apical areas, a few small subapical spots and some small marginal spots of the same color. Wings brownish-ochraceous, paler at apex than at base and very pale across the center, with a white marginal spot near anal angle; the venation brown. <\/p>\n<p>The rostrum reaches the basal abdominal segment; the lateral margins of the pronotum are distinctly angulated; the face is robustly gibbous, with a profound central longitudinal sulcation; the posterior tibijE have three distinct spines on each side of apical half. <\/p>\n<p>Long. excl. tegm. 2 . 23 millim. Exp. tegm. 70 millim. ; exp. pronot. angl. 13 millim. <\/p>\n<p>Hab. \u2014 Continental India : Neelgiri Hills, northern slopes, 3500 &#038; 5000 feet (Hampson \u2014 coll. Dist.).\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Scientific classification:<\/strong><br \/>\nFamily: Cicadidae<br \/>\nSubfamily: Cicadinae<br \/>\nTribe: Platypleurini<br \/>\nGenus: Platypleura<br \/>\nSpecies: <em>Platypleura hampsoni<\/em> (Distant, 1887)<\/p>\n<p>For more information about this cicada, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiancicadas.org\/#!\/sp\/334\/Platypleura-hampsoni\">Cicadas of India<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Platypleura hampsoni is a cicada found in India. Image and Description from A Monograph of Oriental Cicadas by W. L. Distant. 1889-1892. Read it on the Biodiversity Heritage Library website: Male. Head luteous; front with a number of black linear markings; vertex with a transverse, narrow, black fascia between the eyes, and with a central [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,554,220,390,415],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-a-monograph-of-oriental-cicadidae","category-platypleura","category-platypleurini","category-william-lucas-distant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9580","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=9580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}