y31a bx28 #4 These beautiful Black Winged Cicadas with their wings spread come as a pair! Female and male- see last picture for size. These would be a great addition to any collection or for educational purposes. Also wonderful to make your own display with!
These are the two you will be receiving.
species: Tosena Albata
Tosena albata is a cicada species from Southeast Asia. It was described by William Lucas Distant in 1878 who, however, subsequently regarded it as a variety of Tosena melanoptera. However, in 2000 Boulard confirmed the species status of Tosena albata by comparing its song with that of other Tosena species.
Chirping bugs like katydids, cicadas and crickets are prized throughout China, collected by children and old men who keep them in clay vessels or bamboo cages and nourish them with grains of rice and razor-thin slices of green onion. The practice of collecting singing insects is said to have begun 2,000 years ago. They were sought as good-luck talismans, and later as companions for imperial concubines, who kept them in gilded cages.
The insects are embedded in Chinese culture. Ancient poems praise their melodious songs, and many idiomatic expressions use crickets and grasshoppers as metaphors for fertility, friendship or the passage of time. (NYT-Andrew Jacobs)
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