''Tacua speciosa'' is a very large

Southeast Asia Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical United Nations geoscheme for Asia#South-eastern Asia, south-eastern region of Asia, consistin ...

n species of cicada. It is the only member of the genus ''Tacua''.

Description

''Tacua speciosa'' has a

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of and a head-body length of . ''

Megapomponia ''Megapomponia'' is a genus of cicadas from Southeast Asia containing the world's largest cicadas species.Boulard, M. (2005). Création du genre ''Megapomponia'' et description de ''Mp. clamorigravis'' n. sp. (Rhynchota, Cicadoidea, Cicadidae). ...

'', '' Pomponia'' and ''Tacua'' are the largest cicadas in the world. ''Tacua speciosa'' has black wings, a yellow-green collar, a red transverse stripe on the

thorax The thorax or chest is a part of the anatomy of humans, mammals, and other tetrapod animals located between the neck and the abdomen. In insects, crustaceans, and the extinct trilobites, the thorax is one of the three main divisions of the cre ...

and a turquoise-blue

abdomen The abdomen (colloquially called the belly, tummy, midriff, tucky or stomach) is the part of the body between the thorax (chest) and pelvis, in humans and in other vertebrates. The abdomen is the front part of the abdominal segment of the torso. ...

Distribution

This species can be found in

Borneo Borneo (; id, Kalimantan) is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. At the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, in relation to major Indonesian islands, it is located north of Java, west of Sulawesi, and eas ...

Sumatra Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia. It is the largest island that is fully within Indonesian territory, as well as the sixth-largest island in the world at 473,481 km2 (182,812 mi.2), not including adjacent i ...

Java Java (; id, Jawa, ; jv, ꦗꦮ; su, ) is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the south and the Java Sea to the north. With a population of 151.6 million people, Java is the world's List ...

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...

Malay Peninsula The Malay Peninsula (Malay: ''Semenanjung Tanah Melayu'') is a peninsula in Mainland Southeast Asia. The landmass runs approximately north–south, and at its terminus, it is the southernmost point of the Asian continental mainland. The area ...

. It was once described as from

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but it seems to be a mistake.

Notes

References

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* M.I. Zaidi W. Nordin, M. Maryati, A. Wahab, M.F. Norashikin, K. Catherine and A. Fatimah - Cicada (Homoptera: Ciadoidea) Fauna of Crocker Range Park, Sabah - Asean Review of Biodiversity and Environmental Conservation (ARBEC) July–September 2002
Arbec.com

"Notes on Indian Rhynchota - Homoptera"
*https://www.cicadamania.com/cicadas/tacua-speciosa/

External links

A detailed photo of a T. speciosa
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