Kikihia cutora

Kikihia cutora, the snoring cicada, is a species of cicada that is endemic to New Zealand.[3][2] This species was first described by Francis Walker in 1850.[1]

Kikihia cutora
Kikihia cutora cutora
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Family: Cicadidae
Genus: Kikihia
Species:
K. cutora
Binomial name
Kikihia cutora
(Walker, 1850)[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Cicada cutora Walker, 1850

Subspecies

There are three subspecies:[2]

  • Kikihia cutora cumberi Fleming, 1973 (Southern Snoring Cicada)
  • Kikihia cutora cutora (Walker, 1850) (Northern Snoring Cicada)
  • Kikihia cutora exulis (Hudson, 1950) (Kermadec Cicada or Kermadec Snoring Cicada)
  • Kikihia cutora

References
  1. Larivière, M.-C.; Fletcher, M. J.; Larochelle, A. (2010). "Auchenorrhyncha (Insecta: Hemiptera): catalogue" (PDF). Fauna of New Zealand. 63: 1–232. Retrieved 15 December 2018 – via Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research.
  2. "Kikihia cutora (Walker, 1850)". Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
  3. Gordon, Dennis P., ed. (2010). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity, Volume Two, Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils. Vol. 2. Christchurch, N.Z.: Canterbury University Press. p. 403. ISBN 9781877257933. OCLC 973607714.


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