Maoricicada lindsayi

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Maoricicada lindsayi
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Female
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Male
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Family: Cicadidae
Genus: Maoricicada
Species:
M. lindsayi
Binomial name
Maoricicada lindsayi
(Myers, 1923) [1]
Synonyms [2]
  • Pauropsalta lindsayiMyers, 1923

Maoricicada lindsayi, also known as the Lindsay's cicada, is a species of cicada that is endemic to New Zealand. [2] [3] This species was first described by John Golding Myers in 1923. [1] [4] Myers named the species in honour of Charles Lindsay who collected the holotype specimen. [5]

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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 February 2013. Retrieved 16 December 2018 via Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research.
  2. 1 2 "Maoricicada lindsayi (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. LCCN   2011379669. 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. 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.