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{{Short description|Species of true bug}}
{{Speciesbox
| image = Green Cicada (Dundubia vaginata) (8440757929).jpg
| image_caption = ''Dundubia vaginata'' ([[Similajau National Park]], [[Malaysia]])
| genus = Dundubia
| species = vaginata
| authority = [[Johan Christian Fabricius|Fabricius]], 1787
| display_parents = 4
| synonyms = {{Collapsible list |
* ''Tettigonia vaginata'' Fabricius, 1787 ([[basionym]]).<ref name="FAB1787"/>
* ''Cicada virescens'' Olivier, 1790
* ''Cicada vaginata'' Olivier, 1790
* ''Dundubia varians'' Walker, F., 1850
* ''Dundubia immacula'' Walker, F., 1850
* ''Dundubia sobria'' Walker, F., 1850
* ''Cicada mannifera'' Walker, F., 1850
* ''Dundubia mannifera'' Stål, 1866
* ''Dundubia mannifera immacula'' Distant, 1889
* ''Dundubia manifera'' Schmidt, E., 1920
* ''Fidicina mannifera'' Weber, H., 1931
* ''Dilobopyga gemina'' Duffels, 1977
* ''Fidicina confinis'' Zaidi & Ruslan, 1997
* ''Dundubia vaginat'' Zaidi, Nordin, Maryata, Wahab, Norashikin, Catherine & Fatimah, 2002
* ''Cephaloxys mannifera'' Pham & Thinh, 2005
* ''Mogannia mannifera'' Pham & Thinh, 2005
}}  }}

'''''Dundubia vaginata'''''<ref name="FAB1787">Fabricius JC (1787) ''Ryngota. Mantissa insectorum sistens species nuper detectas adiectis synonymis, observationibus, descriptionibus, emendationibus. Hafniae, Impensis Christ. Gottl. Proft''. 2: 1-382. ([https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/82321#page/5/mode/1up complete text])</ref> is the [[type species]] in its genus, sometimes called the '''jade-green cicada'''<ref name="LEO2011">Leong TM, Shunari M, Eksan A, Harvey-Samuel TD (2011) The jade-green cicada, ''Dundubia vaginata'' (Fabricius, 1787) in Singapore, with notes on emergence, bioacoustics, and mating (Homoptera: Cicadidae: Cicadinae). ''Nature in Singapore'', 4: 193–202.</ref> ([[Hemiptera]]: [[Cicadidae]]) in the tribe [[Dundubiini]].<ref name="SAN2014">Sanborn AF, Villet MH (2014) ''Catalogue of the Cicadoidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha)''. Academic Press, Elsevier, 1002 pages.</ref>

==Habitat and distribution==
''Dundubia vaginata'' is one of the most widespread species of the genus ''Dundubia'' and typically found in [[tropical forest]]s.<ref name="HEL1993">Helfert, B., Sänger, K. 1993. Final moulting of Dundubia vaginata in the Thale Ban National Park, Thailand (Homoptera: Cicadidae). Entomologia Generalis, 18(1–2): 37–41.</ref>  The recorded distribution is widespread throughout SE Asia: from India and China to Japan, Thailand, [[Malesia]], through to [[Sulawesi]] and northern [[Australia]].<ref name="LEO2011"/>

==Description==
This species can have a uniform jade green colour throughout the body and has transparent wings.<ref name="LEO2011"/>  Its colour is actually very variable and the head, thorax and abdomen vary from ochre to green through brown.<ref name="OVE1967">Overmeer WPJ, Duffels JP (1967) A revisionary study of the genus ''Dundubia'' Amyot & Serville (Homoptera, Cicadidae). ''Beaufortia'', 166: 29-59.</ref>

Both pairs of wings are hyaline and may be slightly tinged with bronze.  Males measure 35 to 45&nbsp;mm and females 30 to 39&nbsp;mm.<ref name="OVE1967"/>

The front of the head is never black.  The upper part of the [[Clypeus (arthropod anatomy)|clypeus]] is twice as wide at the base as the anterior lateral margins of the vertex. The [[Rostrum (anatomy)|rostrum]] passes the intermediate [[Arthropod leg#Coxa|coxa]], barely reaching the posterior coxa. The apex of the rostrum is black.<ref name="OVE1967"/>

===Description of the male===
The [[Operculum (animal)|opercula]] are spoon-shaped not curved laterally and its end is rounded; twice as long as wide and not strongly constricted.  These opercula cover the [[tymbal]]s, and reach the fifth to seventh abdominal segment. The [[mesonotum]] may sometimes have black lines. Head, thorax and abdomen are ochre or bright green. The [[uncus]] consists of two broad and obtuse lobes. The abdomen is uniform in colour without black spots.<ref name="OVE1967"/>

===Description of the female===
[[File:Dundubia vaginata, female (21112089248).jpg|thumb|right|''Dundubia vaginata'' female]]
The opercula do not have a lateral tooth. The mesonotum does not show black lines. The base of the abdomen is fairly pointed and slightly curved upwards. The lateral sides of the abdomen do not have black spots.<ref name="OVE1967"/>

==Ecology==
The life cycle of ''Dundubia vaginata'' is completed by the emergence of the [[imago]], which lives for one to two months and is periodic.<ref name="LEO2011"/>

Predators of the imago include: bats<ref name="HEL1993"/> and ''[[Dicrurus paradiseus]]''.<ref name="LEO2011"/>  [[Caecilians]] may feed on larvae.<ref name="LEO2003">Leong TM, Lim GHS (2003) Noteworthy dietary records for ''Caudacaecilia larutensis'' and ''Limnonectes kuhlii'' from Maxwell’s Hill, Peninsular Malaysia (Amphibia: Gymnophiona and Anura). ''Hamadryad'', 27(2): 268–270.</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:Dundubiini]]
[[Category:Hemiptera of Asia]]