Common cicadas of Utah (UT):
Beameria ansercollis Sanborn and M. Heath in Sanborn, M. Heath, Phillips and J. Heath, 2011
Beameria venosa (Uhler, 1888)
Hadoa bifida (Davis, 1916)
Hadoa duryi Davis, 1917
Neoplatypedia constricta Davis, 1920
Okanagana cruentifera (Uhler, 1892)
Okanagana formosa Davis, 1926
Okanagana fumipennis Davis, 1932
Okanagana gibbera Davis, 1927
Okanagana hesperia (Uhler, 1872)
Okanagana luteobasalis Davis, 1935
Okanagana magnifica Davis, 1919
Okanagana mariposa mariposa Davis, 1915
Okanagana occidentalis (Walker in Lord, 1866)
Okanagana rubrovenosa Davis, 1915
Okanagana schaefferi Davis, 1915
Okanagana striatipes (Haldeman, 1852)
Okanagana sugdeni Davis, 1938
Okanagana synodica nigra Davis, 1944
Okanagana synodica synodica (Say, 1825) aka Walking Cicada
Okanagana tanneri Davis, 1930
Okanagana utahensis Davis, 1919
Okanagana vanduzeei Distant, 1914
Okanagodes gracilis gracilis Davis, 1919
Platypedia affinis Davis, 1939
Platypedia areolata (Uhler, 1861)
Platypedia mohavensis mohavensis Davis, 1920
Platypedia mohavensis rufescens Davis, 1932
Platypedia putnami lutea Davis, 1920 aka Putnam’s Cicada
Platypedia putnami putnami (Uhler, 1877) aka Putnam’s Cicada
Name and Location References:
- Full Binomial Names: ITIS.gov
- Common names & locations: BugGuide.net; iNaturalist.com; The Songs of Insects by Lang Elliott and Wil Herschberger; my personal memory.
- Locations: Biogeography of the Cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of North America, North of Mexico by Allen F. Sanborn and Polly K. Phillips.
- List of species with MAPs: Biogeography of the Cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of North America, North of Mexico [PDF] by Allen F. Sanborn and Polly K. Phillips. Download it once; treasure it forever.
Great info.
Will there big an above average cicada hatch in Northern Utah, this year, 2024 ?
My Google AI (Bard), Chrome Browser & Search tools have “0” details about the upcoming 2024 Utah cicada hatch.
If you get good at using the website iNaturalist, you can get an idea of where cicadas.
Platypedia, Okanagana, and Diceroprocta all have big years, so it’s good to figure out where they are and then wait.
I saw them for the first time in Farmington, 2022, exoshells only, but I sure would like to be on the lookout. Did you find anything about a Northern Utah emergence this year?
For Northern Utah, it’s going to be somewhere within the last week of May to the third week of June. See Guessing at when the next Platypedia or Okanagana hatch will happen. That said, call lodges, fly fishing shops and even guides in the area. They will have the on the ground and secret info.
We are being invaded up here in Mantua. We shook our tree and about 50 of them fell to the ground or flew away.
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Found lots of cicadas, Dead and alive on my walk in Layton Utah this morning. First time I’ve ever noticed them. I’ve observed cicadas and eastern United States on visits there. These are smaller and darker. They make a different sound than the metallic humming I heard back east. But they are definitely cicadas from the pictures I looked up.
Maybe a type of Platypedia that make percussive sounds with their wings, or Okanagana that make sounds with tymbals (like eastern types) but their sounds are more monotonous.