Tacua speciosa information

Tacua speciosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Auchenorrhyncha
Infraorder:	Cicadomorpha
Superfamily:	Cicadoidea
Family:	Cicadidae
Subfamily:	Cicadinae
Tribe:	Tacuini
Genus:	Tacua
Species:	T. speciosa
Binomial name
	Tacua speciosa; (Illiger, 1800)
Synonyms
	Tettigonia speciosa Illiger, 1800; Cicada indica Donovan, 1800; Cicada speciosa (Illiger, 1800);

Tacua speciosa is a very large Southeast Asian species of cicada. It is the only member of the genus Tacua (from Chinese: 大鼓; pinyin: dàgǔ; Wade–Giles: ta⁴ku³; lit. 'big drum').^[1]

^ Amyot CJB, Audinet-Serville, JG (1843) Homoptères. Homoptera Latr. [In] Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Hémiptères. Deuxième partie: 455-483. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris, 676 pages.

[AMY1843-1] Amyot CJB, Audinet-Serville, JG (1843) Homoptères. Homoptera Latr. [In] Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Hémiptères. Deuxième partie: 455-483. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris, 676 pages.