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Zammara smaragdula
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...
Zammara are found in the Neotropics, especially in equatorial regions,where they live in tropical forest habitat.
I saw a similar one from Costa Rica, but with black eyes, in 2013 - http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/438...
Spotted on Aug 3, 2015
Submitted on Jan 30, 2016
29 Comments (1–25)
thank you Felix and Polilla... much appreciated.
Beautiful! Congratulations.
thanks Robert, Leuba and Michael
Fantastic. Congrats
Congratulations to you and your Cicada,Pam !
Nice one Pam. Congrats on your 2nd place. Well deserved.
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 !!
Congratulations on second place Pam!!!
Congratulations Pam, this beautiful cicada came 2nd in our 2016 Best Photo contest in the Arthropods category!
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Beautiful detail on your spotting, Pamsai
Haha, yes indeed Leanne. Looks like some Sth American or Tibetan piece of jewellry.
What an amazing cicada! Great find Pam. A beautiful work of art by Mother Nature.
thanks Leuba. Those eyes are amazing. The ones I saw in Costa Rica 2 years before, had black eyes.
Just Beautiful ! those eyes are amazing. Great spotting Pam.
thanks Jason... I only took the photo, it's nature that is so wonderful, isn't it !?
Wonderful!!
thanks Antonio, I have added it to that mission.
Gorgeous capture Pam,you should add your spottings to the new mission http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/2004... for chosing the best's wild photos of 2016,congrats and thanks for sharing such a beautiful creature
Yes Viv, or American Indian jewellry, or Tibetan turquoise. But definitely the colour of old turquoise.
:0 The colours made me think of Mexican turquoise
Hahaha thanks torsten... great minds think alike, they say.
Well, that's funny: I sent my comment without reading the other ones. Two are nearly the same ;-).
Wow! What a beauty!!!
thanks Viv... I changed the date to the correct one !!
Wow! That's a beauty Pam