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Huechys sanguinea
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<h2 id="subspecies">Subspecies</h2> <p>Four subspecies are recognized:<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> </p> <ul><li><i>H. s. hainanensis</i></li> <li><i>H. s. philaemata</i></li> <li><i>H. s. suffusa</i></li> <li><i>H. s. wuchangensis</i></li></ul> <h2 id="description">Description</h2> <p><i>Huechys sanguinea</i> can reach a length of about 20 millimetres (0.79 in).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> It is a small strikingly coloured cicada. The basic body color is deep scarlet with smoky-grey wings, but proboscis and limbs are deep black. These cicadas usually emerge synchronously in April.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> The specific name is from Latin <i>sanguis</i>, blood. </p> <h2 id="distribution">Distribution</h2> <p>This species is native to South- and Southeast Asia, specifically India and Myanmar, southern China (including Hainan Island), Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand, the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Singapore and down into Sumatra and Timor.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> </p> Wikimedia Commons has media related to Huechys sanguinea. <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Huechys sanguinea (De Geer, 1773)". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 9 July 2021. <a href="https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/3MSPQ" target="_blank">https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/3MSPQ</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Tzi Ming Leong and Ali bin Ibrahim OVIPOSITION BY THE BLACK AND SCARLET CICADA, HUECHYS SANGUINEA (DE GEER, 1773) IN SINGAPORE <a href="http://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/nis/bulletin2011/2011nis303-306.pdf" target="_blank">http://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/nis/bulletin2011/2011nis303-306.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Ibrahim, Ali bin; Leong, T.M. (2009). "Records of the black and scarlet cicada, Huechys sanguinea (De Geer) in Singapore, with Notes on its emergence (Homoptera: Cicadidae: Cicadettinae)" (PDF). Nature in Singapore. 2: 317–22. <a href="http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/nis/bulletin2009/2009nis317-322.pdf" target="_blank">http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/nis/bulletin2009/2009nis317-322.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Ibrahim, Ali bin; Leong, T.M. (2009). "Records of the black and scarlet cicada, Huechys sanguinea (De Geer) in Singapore, with Notes on its emergence (Homoptera: Cicadidae: Cicadettinae)" (PDF). Nature in Singapore. 2: 317–22. <a href="http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/nis/bulletin2009/2009nis317-322.pdf" target="_blank">http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/nis/bulletin2009/2009nis317-322.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>