''Dundubia vaginata''Fabricius JC (1787) ''Ryngota. Mantissa insectorum sistens species nuper detectas adiectis synonymis, observationibus, descriptionibus, emendationibus. Hafniae, Impensis Christ. Gottl. Proft''. 2: 1-382.
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in its genus, sometimes called the jade-green cicadaLeong TM, Shunari M, Eksan A, Harvey-Samuel TD (2011) The jade-green cicada, ''Dundubia vaginata'' (Fabricius, 1787) in Singapore, with notes on emergence, bioacoustics, and mating (Homoptera: Cicadidae: Cicadinae). ''Nature in Singapore'', 4: 193–202. (

Hemiptera Hemiptera (; ) is an order of insects, commonly called true bugs, comprising more than 80,000 species within groups such as the cicadas, aphids, planthoppers, leafhoppers, assassin bugs, bed bugs, and shield bugs. They range in size from ...

Cicadidae Cicadidae, the true cicadas,World Auchenorrhyncha Database: fam ...

) in the tribe

Dundubiini The Dundubiini are a tribe (biology), tribe of cicadas in the family Cicadidae, found in the Palearctic realm, Palearctic, Indomalayan realm, Indomalaya, Australasia, and the Western Pacific. There are at least 180 described species in Dundubiini ...

.Sanborn AF, Villet MH (2014) ''Catalogue of the Cicadoidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha)''. Academic Press, Elsevier, 1002 pages.

Habitat and distribution

''Dundubia vaginata'' is one of the most widespread species of the genus ''Dundubia'' and typically found in

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s.Helfert, B., Sänger, K. 1993. Final moulting of Dundubia vaginata in the Thale Ban National Park, Thailand (Homoptera: Cicadidae). Entomologia Generalis, 18(1–2): 37–41. The recorded distribution is widespread throughout SE Asia: from India and China to Japan, Thailand,

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and northern

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Description

This species can have a uniform jade green colour throughout the body and has transparent wings. Its colour is actually very variable and the head, thorax and abdomen vary from ochre to green through brown.Overmeer WPJ, Duffels JP (1967) A revisionary study of the genus ''Dundubia'' Amyot & Serville (Homoptera, Cicadidae). ''Beaufortia'', 166: 29-59. Both pairs of wings are hyaline and may be slightly tinged with bronze. Males measure 35 to 45 mm and females 30 to 39 mm. The front of the head is never black. The upper part of the clypeus is twice as wide at the base as the anterior lateral margins of the vertex. The

rostrum Rostrum may refer to: * Any kind of a platform for a speaker: **dais **pulpit ** podium * Rostrum (anatomy), a beak, or anatomical structure resembling a beak, as in the mouthparts of many sucking insects * Rostrum (ship), a form of bow on naval ...

passes the intermediate coxa, barely reaching the posterior coxa. The apex of the rostrum is black.

Description of the male

The opercula are spoon-shaped not curved laterally and its end is rounded; twice as long as wide and not strongly constricted. These opercula cover the

tymbal The tymbal (or timbal) is the corrugated exoskeletal structure used to produce sounds in insects. In male cicadas, the tymbals are membranes in the abdomen, responsible for the characteristic sound produced by the insect. In tiger moths, the t ...

s, and reach the fifth to seventh abdominal segment. The

mesonotum The mesothorax is the middle of the three segments of the thorax of hexapods, and bears the second pair of legs. Its principal sclerites (exoskeletal plates) are the mesonotum (dorsal), the mesosternum ( ventral), and the mesopleuron (lateral) ...

may sometimes have black lines. Head, thorax and abdomen are ochre or bright green. The

uncus The uncus is an anterior extremity of the parahippocampal gyrus. It is separated from the apex of the temporal lobe by a sulcus called the rhinal sulcus. Although superficially continuous with the hippocampal gyrus, the uncus forms morphol ...

consists of two broad and obtuse lobes. The abdomen is uniform in colour without black spots.

Description of the female

The opercula do not have a lateral tooth. The mesonotum does not show black lines. The base of the abdomen is fairly pointed and slightly curved upwards. The lateral sides of the abdomen do not have black spots.

Ecology

The life cycle of ''Dundubia vaginata'' is completed by the emergence of the

imago In biology, the imago (Latin for "image") is the last stage an insect attains during its metamorphosis, its process of growth and development; it is also called the ''imaginal'' stage ("imaginal" being "imago" in adjective form), the stage in wh ...

, which lives for one to two months and is periodic. Predators of the imago include: bats and '' Dicrurus paradiseus''.

Caecilians Caecilians (; ) are a group of limbless, vermiform (worm-shaped) or serpentine (snake-shaped) amphibians with small or sometimes nonexistent eyes. They mostly live hidden in soil or in streambeds, and this cryptic lifestyle renders caecilians ...

may feed on larvae.Leong TM, Lim GHS (2003) Noteworthy dietary records for ''Caudacaecilia larutensis'' and ''Limnonectes kuhlii'' from Maxwell’s Hill, Peninsular Malaysia (Amphibia: Gymnophiona and Anura). ''Hamadryad'', 27(2): 268–270.

References

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* {{taxonbar, from=Q39072933 Dundubiini Hemiptera of Asia