Sanmai (cicada)

Sanmai; Temporal range:
	Sanmai kongi holotype from the Jurassic of China
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Auchenorrhyncha
Family:	Tettigarctidae
Genus:	†Sanmai; Chen et al., 2016
Species
	See text

Sanmai is an extinct genus of tettigarctid cicada from the middle Jurassic Epoch. The name is derived from the Mandarin san (three) and mai (branch) in reference to a certain vein of the wing being three-branched. This feature is also found in Architettix, a related fossil cicada genus. Sanmai currently contains three species. It undoubtedly belong to the subfamily Cicadoprosbolinae; however, placing it in a tribe has proved difficult. It is closely related to both Turutanoviini and Architettigini, and may be a transitional between the two. It is also possible it rests outside the two taxa, the similarities being convergent. Sanmai possesses "light and irregular speckles and lon-gitudinal stripes boldly contrasting to dark membrane, " which were likely designed to camouflage it from the many insectivourus creatures of the Daohugou Lagerstatte. The Daohugou Paleolake is part of the Jiulongshan Formation.^[1]

Species

The following species are attributed to this genus:


Species	Notes	Image	Ref.
†Sanmai kongi	Named for the family name of Confucius, founder of Confucianism	Sanmai kongi paratype STMN48-1801	^[1]
†Sanmai mengi	Named for the family name of Mencius, a Sage of Confucianism.		^[1]
†Sanmai xuni	Named for the family name of Xuncius, a Sage of Confucianism		^[1]

References

1 2 3 4 Chen, Jun; Zhang, Haichun; Wang, Bo; Zheng, Yan; Wang, Xiaoli; Zheng, Xiaoting (2016). "New Jurassic tettigarctid cicadas from China with a novel example of disruptive coloration". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 61. doi:10.4202/app.00238.2015. ISSN 0567-7920. S2CID 59329301.

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[:0-1] 1 2 3 4 Chen, Jun; Zhang, Haichun; Wang, Bo; Zheng, Yan; Wang, Xiaoli; Zheng, Xiaoting (2016). "New Jurassic tettigarctid cicadas from China with a novel example of disruptive coloration". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 61. doi:10.4202/app.00238.2015. ISSN 0567-7920. S2CID 59329301.

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