Gaeana

Gaeana 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.[1][2] It is closely related to the genus Tosena but is differentiated by the exposed tympanum and lacks spines on the sides of the pronotum.[3]

Gaeana
Gaeana maculata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Family: Cicadidae
Tribe: Gaeanini
Genus: Gaeana
Amyot & Serville, 1843
Type species
Cicada maculata
Drury, 1773
Synonyms

Gaena, Geaena (misspelling)

Species

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  • 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
  1. 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. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2004.00284.x.
  2. Green, EE (1910). "Remarkable mimetic resemblance between a Cicadid and an Arctiid moth". J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 10: 882–883.
  3. Distant, W.L. (1892). A monograph of the Oriental Cicadidae. Calcutta: Indian Museum. p. 104.
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