Amphipsalta cingulata
| Clapping cicada | |
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| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Auchenorrhyncha |
| Family: | Cicadidae |
| Genus: | Amphipsalta |
| Species: | A. cingulata
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| Binomial name | |
| Amphipsalta cingulata | |
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Amphipsalta cingulata, the clapping cicada, is a species of cicada that is endemic to New Zealand.[3][1]
Taxonomy
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]This species is endemic to New Zealand and is found only in the North Island.[5]
References
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