Song type: Call
Source: ©Insect Singers | Species: B. venosa
Name, Location and Description
- Cicada Name: Beameria venosa (Uhler, 1888)
- Short Name: B. venosa
- Where it is found: AZ, AR, CO, IA, KS, MO, NE, NM, OK, TX, UT
- Maps: Biogeography of the Cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of North America, North of Mexico [PDF]
- Description: Very small. Beige with green and black wing veins.
- Eye Color: beige
- Pronotal Collar Color: beige
- Identification: Bug Guide
- Identification: iNaturalist
- Taxonomic Information: Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- Song: Insect Singers
Classification:
Family: Cicadidae
Subfamily: Cicadinae
Tribe: Fidicinini
Subtribe: Guyalnina
Genus: Beameria
Species: Beameria venosa (Uhler, 1888)
List of sources
- Full Binomial Names: ITIS.gov
- Common names: BugGuide.net; The Songs of Insects by Lang Elliott and Wil Herschberger; personal memory.
- Locations: Biogeography of the Cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of North America, North of Mexico by Allen F. Sanborn and Polly K. Phillips.
- Descriptions, Colors: personal observations from specimens or photos from many sources. Descriptions are not perfect, but may be helpful.
Notes:
- Some descriptions are based on aged specimens which have lost some or a lot of their color.
I found one that is camouflaged, is a female maybe an inch long including the wings.
Feel free to send a photo to cicadamania@gmail.com
I grew up in north central Texas and used to catch cicadas as a boy.I remember three species I encountered a lot—a small green one,a yellow one with a siren-like song and a big brown one.Used to catch the latter type frequently because they were down low in shrubs instead of trees.Some were females.Sometimes I would observe them mating.
Last year these noisy, creepy, creatures took up house keeping in a large tree in my backyard and just this week I’ve been hearing a few and I found an exoskeleton on my back porch ceiling.
Last year they nearly drove us nuts. There were so many I thought it would never end.
If there are as many this year, is there some way to scare them off without killing them?
Rio Vista, TX 76093
@Annette, I don’t have a good answer for you. You could always pick them off the tree and put them in a local park.