Maoricicada lindsayi | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hemiptera |
Suborder: | Auchenorrhyncha |
Family: | Cicadidae |
Genus: | Maoricicada |
Species: | M. lindsayi
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Binomial name | |
Maoricicada lindsayi | |
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Maoricicada lindsayi, also known as the Lindsay's cicada, is a species of cicada that is endemic to New Zealand.[2][3] This species was first described by John Golding Myers in 1923.[1][4] Myers named the species in honour of Charles Lindsay who collected the holotype specimen.[5]