Observations of the emergence of Fijian cicadas in September 2017

Siteri Tikoca1, Chris Simon2, Ainsof  So'o3

1 NatureFiji-MareqetiViti, 249 Rewa Street, Suva, Fiji, Suva, Fiji; 2 University of Connecticut, , United States; 3 SPREP, 

Corresponding author(s): Siteri Tikoca (stikoca@gmail.com)

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Resource Citation

Tikoca S, Moko N, Naivalu S, (2018): Observation of Raiateana knowlesi emergences in September 2017. v1. NatureFiji-MareqetiViti. Dataset/Occurrence. https://ipt.sprep.org/resource?r=nanaiemergence_humanobservations_2017&amp;v=1.0

Abstract

A "nanai" campaign was run on the month of September of 2017, increasing awareness about our unique and endemic cicada, Raiateana knowlesi; a species that is known to emerge once every 8 years. This species is known from only a handful of locations within the Namosi and Navosa Province. A competition was developed through the NatureFiji-MareqetiViti (NFMV) campaign and website to help collect any additional information of emergence from the public with the hopes that we could confirm original distributional information as well as include any possible new credible information of their distribution/emergence. The competition required that certain information was recorded and that a picture was uploaded to help confirm the species and presence.

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation

General description

Additional information: Link to the legend of the "nanai": https://naturefiji.org/legend-of-the-nanai/

Chris Simon: http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/projects/cicada/simon_lab/member_pages/c_simon.php

link to description of the species R. knowlesi; https://books.google.com.fj/books?id=kswUAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA91&lpg=PA91&dq=raiateana+knowlesi&source=bl&ots=0BSGFrH5vi&sig=OZPDlWhDEKtVFUZZqBn-S5UB6us&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiXu4SOwOnbAhXCT7wKHepgCNMQ6AEIUzAL#v=onepage&q=raiateana%20knowlesi&f=false

NatureFiji-MareqetiViti link: https://naturefiji.org/

Project details

Project title: Observations of the emergence of Fijian cicadas in September 2017
Personnel: Siteri Tikoca
Funding: The project was supported with funds from NatureFiji-MareqetiViti members and donations from Mr. John Burns.
Study area descriptions/descriptor: Fiji wide
Design description: A competition was developed through the NatureFiji-MareqetiViti (NFMV) website to help collect additional information of emergence from the public with the hopes that we could confirm original distributional information as well as include any new credible information of their distribution/emergence. The competition required that certain information was recorded and that a picture was uploaded to help confirm the species and presence.

Data published through GBIF: https://ipt.sprep.org/resource?r=nanaiemergence_humanobservations_2017

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Fijian endemic cicada that emerges once every eight years.
Taxonomic ranks
Species: Raiateana knowlesi
Common names: Fijian cicada

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Fiji wide.
Coordinates: 20°4'35.65''S and 15°37'22.8''S Latitude; 175°57'25.2''E and 177°49'28.95''W Longitude 

Temporal coverage: September 1, 2017 - November 1, 2017

Methods

Method step description: A competition was developed through the NatureFiji-MareqetiViti (NFMV) website to help collect additional information of emergence from the public with the hopes that we could confirm original distributional information as well as include any new credible information of their distribution/emergence. The competition required that certain information was recorded and that a picture was uploaded to help confirm the species and presence.
Study extent description: Fiji wide.
Sampling description: A competition was developed through the NatureFiji-MareqetiViti (NFMV) website to help collect additional information of emergence from the public with the hopes that we could confirm original distributional information as well as include any new credible information of their distribution/emergence. The competition required that certain information was recorded and that a picture was uploaded to help confirm the species and presence.
Quality control description: Pictures were uploaded in order for verification of the species in question.

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Observations of the emergence of Fijian cicadas in September 2017
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.sprep.org/archive.do?r=nanaiemergence_humanobservations_2017
Publication date of data: 2018-06-28
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2018-06-22
Hierarchy level: Dataset