Dedicated to cicadas, the most amazing insects in the world.
Genera of cicadas.
Update: the name of this cicada is actually Trengganua sibylla (confirming after consulting Allen Sanborn’s giant cicada book. You’ll find people also refer to this cicada as Tosena sybilla.
A pair of Terengganua sibylla mating.
This website has a audio file of the Terengganua sibylla signing.
Elias was kind enough to send us 10 Tibicen photos he took in 2009. Photos include Tibicen tibicen (chloromera), Tibicen lyricen, Tibicen tibicen & Cicada Killer Wasp on Elias’ fingers, Tibicen canicularis and Tibicen linnei.
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Joe Green recently provided Cicada Mania with videos of various cicadas calling.
Here’s a selection of Megatibicen resonans (formerly Tibicen resonans) calls, including alarm calls:
T. resonans alarm call by Joe Green.
T. resonans alarm call by Joe Green.
T. resonans alarm by Joe Green.
T. resonans calling by Joe Green.
T. resonans calling by Joe Green.
T. resonans calling in Desoto Co. by Joe Green.
Joe’s Tibicen resonans were recorded in Florida. Here are photos of a M. resonans also by Joe.
D. olympusa alarm call by Joe Green from Cicada Mania on Vimeo.
D. olympusa cicada alarm call by Joe Green from Cicada Mania on Vimeo.
Joe Green sent me a couple of CDs worth of North American cicadas calling and has graciously allowed us to use them for the site. The highlight of these videos is that they feature cicada calls.
I have to add descriptions, and about 50 more videos, but for now check out what’s uploaded so far.
Here’s a sample:
Neocicada hieroglyphica singing by Joe Green from Cicada Mania on Vimeo.
Diceroprocta olympusa aka the Scrub Cicada can be found in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
Diceroprocta viridifascia aka the Salt Marsh Cicada can be found in AL, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia.
Source: ©Insect Singers | Species: D. viridifascia
Source: ©Joe Green | Species: D. viridifascia
These videos feature the call of the D. viridifascia.
Family: Cicadidae
Subfamily: Cicadinae
Tribe: Cryptotympanini
Subtribe: Cryptotympanina
Genus: Diceroprocta
Species: Diceroprocta viridifascia (Walker, 1850)
Have you ever wondered what cicadas look like or sound like in Paraguay? The Fauna Paraguayan website has many photos and sound files of Paraguayan cicadas.
Here is a small sample from their website:
Chonosia crassipennis:
Quesada gigas:
David Emery send us a photo of a Cystosoma saundersii (bladder cicada) from Australia and we added it to the gallery.
Just to complement the Aussie cicadas, a small colony of these Cystosoma saundersii have been droning and rattling at dusk around Burwoood in Sydney for the past 2 months. This is their southern-most extension down the east coast of Australia.
cheers,
David.
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More information about Cystosoma saundersii on the CSIRO site.
The Bladder Cicada can be sound in eastern Queensland & NSW, and are most common Nov-Jan. (Moulds, M.S.. Australian Cicadas Kennsignton: New South Wales Press, 1990, p. 193.)
Here’s a photo of a diseased specimen:
