Real Life Cycle of  Black Cicada (Cryptotympana pustulata) specimen encased in clear lucite material. The specimen is crystal clear, indestructible and transparent. Safe, authentic and completely unbreakable product put real Cicada right at your fingertips!

Anyone can safely explore the Cicada from every angle.

It is clear enough for microscope observation.

Size of the lucite block is 16.5x6.5x2.3 cm(6.5x2.6x0.9 inch).

Each one comes with a cardboard box for easy storage.
Weight of the lucite block is 300 g and 500 g with packing box.

*** It shows the incomplete metamorphosis life cycle of locust. The immature stages are called nymphs. The nymphs look very similar to adults but lack wings and reproductive structures. Wings develop gradually on the outside of the body. After five nymphal stages, the final moult to adulthood occurs with the expansion of the wings. ***

1：Eggs    2：Nymph    3：Periostracum Cicadae    4: Hulled Cicadae  

5: Female Adult   6: Female Adult     7: Branch with eggs

This is a handmade real animal specimen craft. Each one will be a bit different (specimen size, color and posture) even in the same production batch.
The pictures in the listing are just for reference as we are selling multiple pieces with same pictures.
 

It is an ideal learning aid for students and kids and also a very good collectible item for every body. 

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Black Cicada (Cryptotympana pustulata)

Cicadas are commonly found in mainland China, Taiwan, and Japan. They had religious significance in ancient China, and symbolized reincarnation or immortality, as the Chinese compared the cicada's periodic molting of its shell with a person's leaving the physical body behind at the time of death. Bronze vessels as old as 1500 B.C. ornamented with cicadas have been found in Chinese tombs, along with white pottery and jewelry featuring cicada designs.

Distribution: Shandong, Hebei, Henan, Jiangsu, and other provinces. Most parts of China.

Charateristic: Size about 37 - 39 mm, female bigger. Black body color, head, chest backplane with shiny, black abdomen, Jianchi latter part of the orange-red wing veins, abdominal flap black male, elliptic, lateral margin of the red brown, foreleg leg of red, black margin, with the tibia, the following sections are black, in the foot after a while section tibia orange, black stripe. Living in the plains and low-elevation mountains, adult occurred in June to September, sounding in daytime.

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