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Emerald Cicada

Zammara smaragdula

Photo by pamsai
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Field Notes

Description:

Zammara is a genus of cicadas. They are large cicadas that are generally bright blue-green in color.

The other ones I have seen either alive, or in photos on the web, mostly seem to have black eyes. I think that the red eyes on this one are spectacular...

Habitat:

Zammara are found in the Neotropics, especially in equatorial regions,where they live in tropical forest habitat.

Notes:

I saw a similar one from Costa Rica, but with black eyes, in 2013 - http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/43849051

Reference Links:

Zammara, Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (29)
pamsai
thank you Felix and Polilla... much appreciated.
pamsai
thanks Robert, Leuba and Michael
triggsturner
Nice one Pam. Congrats on your 2nd place. Well deserved.
pamsai
Thank you so much Daniele and the PN Rangers, I am blown away by this win ! And thank you so much AntónioGinjaGinja for suggesting I enter it into the best photo of 2016 mission. "You have to be in it to win it" as the saying goes ! Never entered my mind that I had a chance of wining !!
Liana
Congratulations on second place Pam!!!
DanielePralong
Congratulations Pam, this beautiful cicada came 2nd in our 2016 Best Photo contest in the Arthropods category! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/projectnoah/photos/pb.10150120463815603.-2207520000.1488061169./10158309023545603/?type=3&theater Make sure to join our 2017 Best Photo mission! http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/2166986003
pamsai
Haha, yes indeed Leanne. Looks like some Sth American or Tibetan piece of jewellry.
LeanneGardner
What an amazing cicada! Great find Pam. A beautiful work of art by Mother Nature.
pamsai
thanks Leuba. Those eyes are amazing. The ones I saw in Costa Rica 2 years before, had black eyes.
Leuba Ridgway
Just Beautiful ! those eyes are amazing. Great spotting Pam.
pamsai
thanks Jason... I only took the photo, it's nature that is so wonderful, isn't it !?
pamsai
thanks Antonio, I have added it to that mission.
AntónioGinjaGinja
Gorgeous capture Pam,you should add your spottings to the new mission http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/2004046002 for chosing the best's wild photos of 2016,congrats and thanks for sharing such a beautiful creature
pamsai
Yes Viv, or American Indian jewellry, or Tibetan turquoise. But definitely the colour of old turquoise.
VivBraznell
:0 The colours made me think of Mexican turquoise
pamsai
Hahaha thanks torsten... great minds think alike, they say.
tmvdh
Well, that's funny: I sent my comment without reading the other ones. Two are nearly the same ;-).
tmvdh
Wow! What a beauty!!!
pamsai
thanks Viv... I changed the date to the correct one !!
pamsai
Hahaha beaker98, thanks. Don't you love the red eyes ?
pamsai
Triggsturner. thanks Robert (hope my memory serves me well !!) Colours are spectacular, no !?

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