Speckled black cicada
The speckled black cicada is a big black cicada covered with bright orange spots and streaks. Even its black wings are spotted with orange, like a party costume. It comes from China.
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Fun facts
Its wings measure about 95 millimetres from tip to tip, about as wide as a grown-up's hand.
Its long, thin beak reaches back between its legs all the way to its belly.
It has two small orange spots between its yellow brown eyes.
A scientist named Dru Drury first described it in 1773.
Most asked questions about Speckled black cicada
?How big is the speckled black cicada?
Its wingspan is about 95 millimetres, about as wide as a grown-up's hand.
?Is the speckled black cicada dangerous?
No. Cicadas do not sting and are harmless.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Gaeana maculata
- Named by
- Drury, 1773
- Group
- True bugs and cicadas
- Family
- Cicadidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hemiptera > Cicadidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Gaeana maculata (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Plates: Dru Drury (1725–1803). Text: John Obadiah Westwood (1805–1893). Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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