Category: Genera

Genera of cicadas.

Cacama variegata Davis, 1919 aka Variegated Cactus Dodger

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Cicada Name: Cacama variegata Davis, 1919
Short Name: C. variegata
Common Name: Variegated Cactus Dodger
Where it is found: TX
Maps: Biogeography of the Cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of North America, North of Mexico [PDF]
Description: Black with brown highlights and white pruinose.
Eye Color: brown
Pronotal Collar Color: brown
Bug Guide: http://bugguide.net/node/view/611822
Taxonomic Information: Integrated Taxonomic Information System
Bill Reynolds: http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/228586

Scientific classification:
Family: Cicadidae
Subfamily: Cicadinae
Tribe: Cryptotympanini
SubTribe: Cryptotympanina
Genus: Cacama
Species: Cacama variegata Davis, 1919

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.

Diceroprocta Tacuini (Cryptotympanini) U.S.A. William T. Davis

Diceroprocta bibbyi Davis, 1928 aka Scrub Cicada

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Cicada Name: Diceroprocta bibbyi Davis, 1928
Short Name: D. bibbyi
Common Name: Scrub Cicada
Where it is found: TX
Maps: Biogeography of the Cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of North America, North of Mexico [PDF]
Description: Black, brown, and beige.
Eye Color: brown?
Pronotal Collar Color: brown and beige
Type Specimen Details: The American Museum of Natural Species
Taxonomic Information: Integrated Taxonomic Information System

Classification:

Family: Cicadidae
Subfamily: Cicadinae
Tribe: Cryptotympanini
Subtribe: Cryptotympanina
Genus: Diceroprocta
Species: Diceroprocta bibbyi Davis, 1928

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.

Diceroprocta Tacuini (Cryptotympanini) U.S.A. William T. Davis

Diceroprocta canescens Davis, 1935 aka Scrub Cicada

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Cicada Name: Diceroprocta canescens Davis, 1935
Short Name: D. canescens
Common Name: Scrub Cicada
Where it is found: TX
Maps: Biogeography of the Cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of North America, North of Mexico [PDF]
Description: Brown and beige, with white pruinose.
Eye Color: brown
Pronotal Collar Color: beige
Type Specimen Details: The American Museum of Natural Species
Taxonomic Information: Integrated Taxonomic Information System

Classification:

Family: Cicadidae
Subfamily: Cicadinae
Tribe: Cryptotympanini
Subtribe: Cryptotympanina
Genus: Diceroprocta
Species: Diceroprocta canescens Davis, 1935

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.

Diceroprocta Tacuini (Cryptotympanini) U.S.A. William T. Davis

Diceroprocta lata Davis, 1941 aka Scrub Cicada

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Cicada Name: Diceroprocta lata Davis, 1941
Short Name: D. lata
Common Name: Scrub Cicada
Where it is found: TX
Maps: Biogeography of the Cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of North America, North of Mexico [PDF]
Description: Brown and beige, with white pruinose.
Eye Color: brown
Pronotal Collar Color: greenish beige
Type Specimen Details: The American Museum of Natural Species
Taxonomic Information: Integrated Taxonomic Information System

Classification:

Family: Cicadidae
Subfamily: Cicadinae
Tribe: Cryptotympanini
Subtribe: Cryptotympanina
Genus: Diceroprocta
Species: Diceroprocta lata Davis, 1941

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.

Hadoa Tacuini (Cryptotympanini) U.S.A. William T. Davis

Hadoa chisosensis Davis, 1934

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Cicada Name: Hadoa chisosensis Davis, 1934
Short Name: H. chisosensis
Where it is found: TX
Maps: Biogeography of the Cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of North America, North of Mexico [PDF]
Description: n/a
Eye Color: n/a
Pronotal Collar Color: n/a
Bug Guide: http://bugguide.net/node/view/606387
Type Specimen Details: The American Museum of Natural Species
Taxonomic Information: Integrated Taxonomic Information System

Classification:

Family: Cicadidae
Subfamily: Cicadinae
Tribe: Cryptotympanini
Subtribe: Cryptotympanina
Genus: Hadoa
Species: Hadoa chisosensis (Uhler, 1905)

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.

Books Magicicada Periodical

Cicadapocalypse a graphic novel about periodical cicadas by Roger McMullan

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Post date November 8, 2023
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Roger McMullan has a new graphic novel about periodical cicadas called Cicadapocalypse. You can obtain a copy from Roger’s online store.

As I understand it, “the book is intended as an introduction to periodical cicadas for curious kids during a cicada emergence by creating a fictional narrative around the cicadas rather than hitting them over the head with facts”. A cicada emergence through the eyes of some shocked and surprised cartoon squirrels.

It looks fun to me.

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Neotibicen Photos & Illustrations Teneral

Pink teneral Neotibicen lyricen

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Post date October 20, 2023
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Neotibicen cicadas come in a variety of pastel colors when they are in their teneral (soft) phase, when they inflate their wings and harden their bodies after molting their nymphal skins. Teneral Neotibicen can feature the colors pink, yellow and blue, in addition to pastel versions of the oranges, browns and greens we commonly see on their fully-hardened adult bodies.

Here’s an example of a male Neotibicen lyricen that was pink when it was teneral:

Here’s photos of the same cicada as a nymph and a hardened adult. See that its mesonotum are black and brown, not green and brown. It’s closer to a Neotibicen lyricen engelhardti than the Neotibicen lyricen lyricen, which has green on its mesonotum (the cicada’s shield-like back).

Hardened adult:

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Exuvia Megatibicen Photos & Illustrations

Megatibicen grossus odds and ends

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Post date October 20, 2023
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I had virtually no time in the summer of 2023 to look for cicadas outside my town. Also in 2023, the name of Megatibicen auletes (Germar, 1834) aka Northern Dusk Singing Cicada changed to Megatibicen grossus. While I was not lucky enough to see a Megatibicen grossus, I did find exuvia (molted skins), a headless corpse and some exit holes in late August in the Brendan Byrne park in New Jersey. Something is better than nothing.

A male exuvia and a headless female Megatibicen grossus