Amphipsalta cingulata

Clapping cicada
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Family: Cicadidae
Genus: Amphipsalta
Species:
A. cingulata
Binomial name
Amphipsalta cingulata
(Fabricius, 1775)[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Tettigonia cingulata Fabricius, 1775
  • Melampsalta cingulata (Fabricius, 1775)
  • Cicadetta cingulata (Fabricius, 1775)

Amphipsalta cingulata, the clapping cicada, is a species of cicada that is endemic to New Zealand.[3][1]

Taxonomy

This species was first described in 1775 by Johann Christian Fabricius based on four specimens.[4][2] Fabricius had been given the specimens by naturalist Sir Joseph Banks, who had collected them from New Zealand while on the voyage of the HMS Endeavour under then-Lieutenant James Cook. Banks and his assistants are recorded to have collected nine cicada specimens from New Zealand, though neither he nor Cook mention the insects in their diaries.[2]

In 1921 the species was transferred to the genus Melampsalta and then to Cicadetta in 1963. In 1969 the species was reclassified into a new genus, Amphipsalta, by John Stweart Dugdale and Charles Alexander Fleming. The pair also designated the male first syntype from Banks' collection a lectotype.[2]: 943 

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand and is found only in the North Island.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b "Amphipsalta cingulata (Fabricius, 1775)". www.nzor.org.nz. Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
  2. ^ a b c d Dugdale, J.S.; Fleming, C.A. (1969). "Two New Zealand cicadas collected on Cook's Endeavour voyage, with description of a new genus". New Zealand Journal of Science. 12: 929–57. Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 August 2025 – via BUGZ.
  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. ^ Fabricius, Johann Christian (1775). Systema entomologiae : sistens insectorvm classes, ordines, genera, species, adiectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibvs, observationibvs. Flensbvrgi et Lipsiae: In Officina Libraria Kortii. p. 680. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.36510.
  5. ^ "NZ Farm Forestry - Large Cicadas, Amphipsalta spp". www.nzffa.org.nz. Retrieved 22 January 2023.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.