Festive cicada

Callogaeana festiva is the combination retained in the 2025 treatment. The species belongs to Cicadidae. [1]

The identified orange reference form has dark forewings interrupted by pale bands and orange hindwings with dark borders. [3]

Distant’s historical account describes greenish-ochre forewings and blue-green hindwings, including forms with expanded dark areas. [2]

Distant reported material under Gaeana festiva from Sikkim, Darjeeling, Sumatra and Ambon, with a dark variant from Assam south of the Brahmaputra. [2]

Modern records include a labelled May photograph from Wiang Pa Pao, Thailand, and voucher MZMU2409 collected near Hualtu, Mizoram, on 14 June 2021 at 1,345 m. [3][5]

Distant’s historical variants included expanded dark wing areas and a pale longitudinal pronotal band, documenting substantial pattern variation in material he assigned to Gaeana festiva. [2]

The Mizoram voucher was collected beside a forest track under a Schima tree. The site was cultivated secondary forest surrounded by primary forest. [5]

Fabricius described the species as Tettigonia festiva in 1803. Gaeana festiva is the combination used in Distant’s monograph; modern treatments place it in Callogaeana. [2][1]

The identified reference photograph exposes the pale forewing bands, orange basal hindwing fields and dark outer borders in a complete adult view. [3]

Patterned forewings contrast with broader hindwing colour fields. The positions of the major markings give each colour treatment its structure.

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What is Gaeana festiva? It is a historical combination of the name now treated as Callogaeana festiva. [2][1]

Where is the modern Indian voucher from? Voucher MZMU2409 was collected near Hualtu, Mizoram, on 14 June 2021. [5]

Distant’s monograph records historical descriptions and localities. The 2025 study supplies the current combination; labelled photographs and the Mizoram field paper document modern adults and collecting contexts. [2][1][3][5]