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ECOLOGY,BEHAVIOR & EVOLUTION OF PERIODICAL CICADAS ![]() CLICK FOR DOWNLOAD --------------------------------- Classification Phylum Arthropoda Class Insecta Order Hemiptera Suborder Auchenorrhyncha Infraorder Cicadomorpha Superfamily Cicadoidea Family Cicadidae Subfamily Cicadinae Tribe Platypleurini Genus Ugada Species U. Limbata
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UGADA LIMBATA CICADA:
Ugada limbata is a species of cicadas belonging to the family Cicadidae.
This species is present in West Africa (Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Gabon, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia).
More Ugada species:
Ugada atratula Distant 1919
The Cicadoidea, cicadas are a superfamily of insects in the order Hemiptera, suborder Auchenorrhyncha along with smaller jumping bugs such as leafhoppers and froghoppers.
About 2,500 species of cicada have been described; many undescribed species remain.
In mythology and folklore
Cicadas have been used as money, in folk medicine, to forecast the weather, to provide song (in China), and in folklore and myths around the world.
In France, the cicada represents the folklore of Provence and the Mediterranean cities.
The cicada has represented insouciance since classical antiquity. Jean de La Fontaine began his collection of fables Les fables de La Fontaine with the
story La Cigale et la Fourmi (The Cicada and the Ant) based on one of Aesop's fables: in it the cicada spends the summer singing while the ant stores
away food, and finds herself without food when the weather turns bitter.
In China, the phrase "to shed the golden cicada skin" is the poetic name of the tactic of using deception to escape
danger, specifically of using decoys (leaving the exuviae) to fool enemies. It became one of the 36 classic Chinese strategems. In the Chinese classic
novel Journey to the West (16th century), the protagonist Priest of Tang was named the Golden Cicada; in this context the multiple shedding of shell
of the cicada symbolizes the many stages of transformation required of a person before all illusions have been broken and one reaches enlightenment.
This is also referred to in Japanese mythical ninja lore, as the technique of utsusemi (i.e., literally cicada), where ninjas would trick opponents into
attacking a decoy. More generally, the cicada symbolises rebirth and immortality in Chinese tradition.
In Japan, the cicada is associated with the summer season. According to Lafcadio Hearn, the song of Meimuna opalifera, called "tsuku-tsuku boshi",
is said to indicate the end of summer, and it is called so because of its particular call.
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