''Ayuthia spectabile'', commonly known as the milky cicada or white ghost cicada, is a

cicada The cicadas () are a superfamily, the Cicadoidea, of insects in the order Hemiptera (true bugs). They are in the suborder Auchenorrhyncha, along with smaller jumping bugs such as leafhoppers and froghoppers. The superfamily is divided into two ...

species.

Distribution

Found in Southeast Asia.Sanborn, A. F., Villet, M. H. 2014. ''Catalogue of the Cicadoidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha)''. Academic Press, Elsevier. 1,002 pp. The species has been reported from It was described by

William Lucas Distant William Lucas Distant (12 November 1845 Rotherhithe – 4 February 1922 Wanstead) was an English entomologist. Biography Early years Distant was born in Rotherhithe, the son of whaling captain Alexander Distant Rao, B.R. Subba (1998) ''Histor ...

in 1919.Distant, W. L. 1919. Description of a new genus and species of the homopterous family Cicadidae. ''Annals and Magazine of Natural History''. London. (Ser. 9), 3: 43-44
BHL

Description

(Toulouse) Ayuthia spectabile MHNT CUT 2022.23.1 - Male dorsal - Malaysia.jpg, ♂ MHNT (Toulouse) Ayuthia spectabile MHNT CUT 2022.23.1 - Male ventral - Malaysia.jpg, ♂ △ MHNT (Toulouse) Ayuthia spectabile MHNT CUT 2022.23.1 - Female dorsal - Malaysia.jpg, ♀ MHNT (Toulouse) Ayuthia spectabile MHNT CUT 2022.23.1 - Female ventral - Malaysia.jpg, ♀ △ MHNT

References

Tosenini Insects described in 1919 Hemiptera of Asia {{Cicadidae-stub