Gold cicada on a jade leaf, Ming-dynasty China, 15th century AD

This is so cool. Hercules were always my favorite insect even though I now live in a place they do not. If this is true to form, it looks like a cross between the annual forms in and the periodical forms I have experienced in different places in the eastern US, or between the periodical eastern and annual western US. None were gold, though 🙂️