| Gaeana | |
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| Gaeana maculata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Auchenorrhyncha |
| Family: | Cicadidae |
| Tribe: | Gaeanini |
| Genus: | Gaeana Amyot & Serville, 1843 |
| Type species | |
| Cicada maculata Drury, 1773 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Gaena, Geaena (misspelling) | |
Gaeana (from Sanskrit: गायन, romanized: gāyana, lit. 'singer') is a genus of cicadas, most members of which have colourful marking on their forewings, found across tropical and temperate Asia. Their bright wing patterns have been hypothesized as being a case of Batesian mimicry where the toxic models may be day-flying moths of the subfamilies Zygaeninae and Arctiinae. It is closely related to the genus Tosena but is differentiated by the exposed tympanum and lacks spines on the sides of the pronotum.
Species
BioLib and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility list:
- Gaeana atkinsoni Distant, 1892
- Gaeana cheni Chou, Lei, Li, Lu & Yao, 1997
- Gaeana chinensis Kato, 1940
- Gaeana consors Atkinson, 1884
- Gaeana hainanensis Chou & Yao, 1895
- Gaeana maculata (Drury, 1773)
- Gaeana nigra Lei & Chou, 1997
- Gaeana variegata Yen, Robinson & Quicke, 2005
Note: species previously placed here are now included in: Ambragaeana, Balinta, Becquartina, Callogaeana (including C. festiva), Sulphogaeana and Tosena
References
- Amyot CJB, Audinet-Serville, JG (1843) Homoptères. Homoptera Latr. Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Hémiptères. Deuxième partie: 455-483. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris, 676 pages.
- Yen, Shen-Horn; Gaden S. Robinson; Donald L. J. Quicke (2005). "Phylogeny, systematics and evolution of mimetic wing patterns of Eterusia moths (Lepidoptera, Zygaenidae, Chalcosiinae)". Systematic Entomology. 30 (3): 358–397. Bibcode:2005SysEn..30..358Y. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2004.00284.x.
- Green, EE (1910). "Remarkable mimetic resemblance between a Cicadid and an Arctiid moth". J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 10: 882–883.
- Distant, W.L. (1892). A monograph of the Oriental Cicadidae. Calcutta: Indian Museum. p. 104.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Gaeana | |