Gaeana atkinsoni
| Gaeana atkinsoni | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Auchenorrhyncha |
| Family: | Cicadidae |
| Subfamily: | Cicadinae |
| Tribe: | Gaeanini |
| Genus: | Gaeana |
| Species: | G. atkinsoni
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| Binomial name | |
| Gaeana atkinsoni Distant, 1889
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Gaeana atkinsoni is a colourful cicada species and is the only member of the genus Gaeana that is found in southern India. Other species are found along the Himalayas and in Southeast Asia.[1] It is endemic to the forests of the Western Ghats where it emerges in summer. Males are brightly coloured with a yellow and black forewing and a bright red hindwing that is visible in flight.[2]
The species was described by William Lucas Distant in 1889 based on a specimen obtained from Karwar by E.T. Atkinson and named after the collector who was also accountant-general of Bengal and a president of the board of trustees of the Indian Museum at Calcutta.[3] The colourful wing patterns are thought to mimic toxic moths and a possible model suggested is Pangora.[4]
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Specimen at Zoologische Staatssammlung München
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Calling in summer
References
- ^ Wang, Jiali; Zhou, Jinrui; Zhang, Wenzhe; Wei, Cong (2025). "Phylogeny, diversification and biogeography of charming moth‐like cicadas in the tribe Gaeanini Distant (Hemiptera, Cicadidae)". Systematic Entomology. 50 (4): 713–735. doi:10.1111/syen.12676. ISSN 0307-6970.
- ^ Distant, W. L. (1892). A monograph of Oriental Cicadidae. Calcutta: Indian Museum. p. 107.
- ^ Distant, W.L. (1889). "Descriptions of a new Genus and some new Species of Cicadidae belonging to the Oriental Region". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 6: 49–53.
- ^ Green, E. Ernest (1911). "Remarkable mimetic resemblance between a cicadid and an Arctiid moth". J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 20 (3): 882–883.