Maoricicada campbelli

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Maoricicada campbelli
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Family: Cicadidae
Genus: Maoricicada
Species:
M. campbelli
Binomial name
Maoricicada campbelli
(Myers, 1923) [1]
Synonyms [2]
  • Melampsalta campbelliMyers, 1923
Campbell's Cicada (Maoricicada campbelli) sitting on ground at the edge of Korowai / Torlesse Tussocklands Park, Canterbury. Maoricicada campbelli - Torlesse Tussocklands Park.jpg
Campbell's Cicada (Maoricicada campbelli) sitting on ground at the edge of Korowai / Torlesse Tussocklands Park, Canterbury.

Maoricicada campbelli, also known as the Campbell's cicada, is a species of cicada that is endemic to New Zealand. [3] [2] This species was first described by John Golding Myers in 1923 under the name Melapsalta campbelli. [1] [4] [5] It was named in honour of James Wishart Campbell, who collected the first specimens of this species. [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 Larivière, M.-C.; Fletcher, M. J.; Larochelle, A. (2010). "Auchenorrhyncha (Insecta: Hemiptera): catalogue" (PDF). Fauna of New Zealand. 63: 1–232. Retrieved 15 December 2018 via Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research.
  2. 1 2 "Maoricicada campbelli (Myers, 1923)". Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
  3. Gordon, Dennis P., ed. (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: Kingdom animalia: chaetognatha, ecdysozoa, ichnofossils. Vol. 2. p. 403. ISBN   978-1-877257-93-3. OCLC   973607714. OL   25288394M. Wikidata   Q45922947.
  4. Dugdale, J.S.; Fleming, C.A. (1978). "New Zealand cicadas of the genus Maoricicada (Homoptera: Tibicinidae)". New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 5 (2): 295–340. doi: 10.1080/03014223.1978.10428319 .
  5. 1 2 Myers, J. G. (1923). "New species of New Zealand Cicadidae". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 54: 430–431 via Biodiversity Heritage Library.