Maoricicada campbelli
Maoricicada campbelli, also known as the Campbell's cicada, is a species of cicada that is endemic to New Zealand.[3][2] This species was first described by John Golding Myers in 1923 under the name Melapsalta campbelli.[1][4][5] It was named in honour of James Wishart Campbell, who collected the first specimens of this species.[5]
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hemiptera |
Family: | Cicadidae |
Genus: | Maoricicada |
Species: | M. campbelli |
Binomial name | |
Maoricicada campbelli | |
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References
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- Larivière, M.-C.; Fletcher, M. J.; Larochelle, A. (2010). "Auchenorrhyncha (Insecta: Hemiptera): catalogue" (PDF). Fauna of New Zealand. 63: 1–232. Retrieved 15 December 2018 – via Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research.
- "Maoricicada campbelli (Myers, 1923)". Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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