species

Gaeana maculata (Drury, 1773)

Descendants and synonyms

Cicada maculata Drury, 1773a: 68.
Holotype; adult; 763ba937-a170-4b2f-8a32-6ea15c3dcf7a; China, Dr Fothergill

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Latin: having spots

Drury, D. (1773a) Illustrations of natural history, wherein are exhibited upwards of two hundred and twenty figures of exotic insects, according to their different genera; very few of which have hitherto been figured by any author,, being engraved and coloured from nature, with the greatest accuracy, and under the author's own inspection, on fifty cooper-lates, with a particular description of each insect, interspersed with remarks and reflections on the nature and properties of many of them. To which is added a translation into French. B. White, London, Vol. 2, 90 pp. + 50 pls.
Price, B.W., Allan, E.L., Marathe, K., Sarkar, V., Simon, C.M. & Kunte, K. (2016) 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(e8051), 1–156. https://doi.org/10.3897/bdj.4.e8051