Tacua speciosa
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Auchenorrhyncha |
| Family: | Cicadidae |
| Subfamily: | Cicadinae |
| Tribe: | Tacuini |
| Subtribe: | Tacuina |
| Genus: | Tacua Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843 |
| Species: | T. speciosa
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| Tacua speciosa (Illiger, 1800)
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Tacua speciosa is a very large Southeast Asian species of cicada. It is the only member of the genus Tacua (from Chinese: 大鼓; pinyin: dàgǔ; Wade–Giles: ta4ku3; lit. 'big drum')[1] and is the type genus of the tribe Tacuini.[2]
Description
[edit]Tacua speciosa has a wingspan of 15–18 cm (5.9–7.1 in) and a head-body length of 4.7–5.7 cm (1.9–2.2 in).[3] Megapomponia, Pomponia and Tacua are the largest cicadas in the world. Tacua speciosa has black wings, a yellow-green collar, a red transverse stripe on the thorax and a turquoise-blue abdomen.
Distribution
[edit]This species can be found in Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Singapore, Malay Peninsula.[4] It was once described as from North East India but it seems to be a mistake.[5]
Notes
[edit]- ^ Amyot CJB, Audinet-Serville, JG (1843) Homoptères. Homoptera Latr. [In] Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Hémiptères. Deuxième partie: 455-483. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris, 676 pages.
- ^ World Auchenorrhyncha Database: genus Tacua Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843 (retrieved 21 May 2025)
- ^ Distant, W.L. (1892). A Monograph of Oriental Cicadidae. London, West
- ^ "Tacua speciosa". 11 October 2018.
- ^ Price, Benjamin Wills; Allan, Elizabeth Louise; Marathe, Kiran; Sarkar, Vivek; Simon, Chris; Kunte, Krushnamegh (2016-07-20). "The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, Nepal and Sri Lanka: an annotated provisional catalogue, regional checklist and bibliography". Biodiversity Data Journal. 4 (4): e8051. doi:10.3897/BDJ.4.e8051. ISSN 1314-2828. PMC 5018104. PMID 27660527.
References
[edit]- Biolib
- Zipcodezoo
- M.I. Zaidi W. Nordin, M. Maryati, A. Wahab, M.F. Norashikin, K. Catherine and A. Fatimah - Cicada (Homoptera: Ciadoidea) Fauna of Crocker Range Park, Sabah - Asean Review of Biodiversity and Environmental Conservation (ARBEC) July–September 2002 Arbec.com
- "Notes on Indian Rhynchota - Homoptera"
- https://www.cicadamania.com/cicadas/tacua-speciosa/
External links
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Media related to Tacua speciosa at Wikimedia Commons- A detailed photo of a T. speciosa
