Gaeana

Short description: Genus of true bugs

Gaeana

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

Drury, 1773

Synonyms

Gaena, Geaena (misspelling)

Gaeana (from Sanskrit: गायन, romanized: gāyana, lit. 'singer'[1]) 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.[2][3] It is closely related to the genus Tosena but is differentiated by the exposed tympanum and lacks spines on the sides of the pronotum.[4]

## Species

BioLib and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility list:

* 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. ↑ Amyot CJB, Audinet-Serville, JG (1843) Homoptères. Homoptera Latr. [In] Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Hémiptères. Deuxième partie: 455-483. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris, 676 pages.
2. ↑ 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.
3. ↑ Green, EE (1910). "Remarkable mimetic resemblance between a Cicadid and an Arctiid moth". J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 10: 882–883. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30167132#page/1030/mode/1up.
4. ↑ Distant, W.L. (1892). A monograph of the Oriental Cicadidae. Calcutta: Indian Museum. p. 104. https://archive.org/stream/monographoforien00distuoft#page/104/mode/1up.

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