Tacua speciosa

Tacua speciosa
	Tacua speciosa from Borneo
	Mounted Tacua speciosa, at National Museum (Prague)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Auchenorrhyncha
Infraorder:	Cicadomorpha
Superfamily:	Cicadoidea
Family:	Cicadidae
Subfamily:	Cicadinae
Tribe:	Tacuini
Genus:	Tacua
Species:	T. speciosa
Binomial name
	Tacua speciosa; (Illiger, 1800)
Synonyms
	Tettigonia speciosa Illiger 1800,; Cicada indica, Donovan; Cicada speciosa, Blanchard; Tacua speciosa, Am. et Serv.;

Tacua speciosa is a very large Southeast Asian species of cicada. It is the only member of its genus.

Description

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).^[1] Megapomponia, Pomponia and Tacua are the largest cicadas in the world. Tacua speciosa has black wings, a yellow-green collar, a red transversal stripe on the thorax and a turqouise-blue abdomen.

Distribution

This species can be found in Borneo, Sumatra, Java and in the Malay Peninsula.

Notes

^ Distant, W.L. (1892). A Monograph of Oriental Cicadidae. London, West

References

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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"

External links

A detailed photo of a T. speciosa

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[1] Distant, W.L. (1892). A Monograph of Oriental Cicadidae. London, West

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