Maoricicada lindsayi

Maoricicada lindsayi, also known as the Lindsay's cicada, is a species of insect that is endemic to New Zealand.[2][3] This species was first described by John Golding Myers in 1923.[1][4] Myers named the species in honour of Charles Lindsay who collected the holotype specimen.[5]

Maoricicada lindsayi
Female
Male
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Family: Cicadidae
Genus: Maoricicada
Species:
M. lindsayi
Binomial name
Maoricicada lindsayi
(Myers, 1923)[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Pauropsalta lindsayi Myers, 1923

References

  1. Larivière, M.-C.; Fletcher, M. J.; Larochelle, A. (2010). "Auchenorrhyncha (Insecta: Hemiptera): catalogue" (PDF). Fauna of New Zealand. 63: 1–232. Retrieved 16 December 2018 via Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research.
  2. "Maoricicada lindsayi (Myers, 1923)". Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
  3. Gordon, Dennis P., ed. (2010). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity, Volume Two, Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils. Vol. 2. Christchurch, N.Z.: Canterbury University Press. p. 403. ISBN 9781877257933. OCLC 973607714.
  4. Dugdale, J.S.; Fleming, C.A. (1978). "New Zealand cicadas of the genus Maoricicada (Homoptera: Tibicinidae)". New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 5 (2): 295–340. doi:10.1080/03014223.1978.10428319.
  5. Myers, J. G. (1923). "New species of New Zealand Cicadidae". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 54: 430–431 via Biodiversity Heritage Library.


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