White ghost cicada's Genuine Specimen in a Dome

Before taxidermy was an aesthetic, it was just what you did with something too extraordinary to let disappear. The white ghost cicada, Ayuthia spectabile, earns its name. Cloudy wings, a whisper of pale blue, and the kind of presence that makes people stop mid-sentence.

This is real natural history presented under glass, the kind of dark aesthetic object that sits on a shelf and quietly dominates the room. Cicadas hold a particular weight in the macabre and gothic imagination, symbols of transformation, resurrection, the uncanny loudness of living things. This one is silent now, but it carries that mythology with it. Australian small business, sourced and prepared with genuine care for the craft.

Genuine Ayuthia spectabile specimen mounted in a glass dome. Dimensions vary by individual specimen.