{"id":1141,"date":"2010-08-04T06:39:17","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T13:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2020-03-25T20:40:55","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T03:40:55","slug":"cicada-alphabet-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/cicada-alphabet-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Cicada Alphabet: D"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>D is for Dog-Day Cicada<\/strong>. The Tibicen canicularis, aka Dog-Day Cicada, is thought to be known as the Dog-Day Cicada because they are most active during the &#8220;dog days of summer&#8221;, which are the days when the star Sirius is visible in the Northern Hemishphere (July 3-August 11)<sup>1<\/sup>. Canicularis is derived from the Latin word canis, which means dog. Tibicen davisi is known as the <em>Southern<\/em> Dog-Day Cicada. Folks use the term &#8220;Dog-Day Cicada&#8221; for other species of Tibicen as well, but the T. canicularis the true Dog-Day Cicada.<\/p>\n<p>Image of a N. canicularis (on the left) and N. davisi<\/a> by Paul Krombholz:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/image.jpg\" alt=\"Neotibicen davisi &amp; canicularis by Paul Krombholz\" width=\"305\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-906\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/image.jpg 305w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/image-254x300.jpg 254w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 305px) 100vw, 305px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Diceroprocta<\/strong> is a genus of cicadas that exist in North America. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The green and black <a href=\"\/cicadas\/diceroprocta-vitripennis-out-in-mississippi\/\">Diceroprocta vitripennis<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The green, brown and black <a href=\"\/cicadas\/diceroprocta-olympusa-walker-1850\/\">Diceroprocta olympusa<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The black, cream and white colored <a href=\"\/cicadas\/a-diceroprocta-apache-davis-1921-from-las-vegas\/\">Diceroprocta apache<\/a>, which are well know to residents of Arizona where they hang out on Oleander trees.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Diemeniana euronotiana<\/strong> is a pretty black, orange and red cicada that exists in south-eastern coastal area of Australia<sup>2<\/sup>. See a photo of <a href=\"\/cicadas\/diemeniana-euronotiana-kirkaldy-1909\/\">a Diemeniana euronotiana<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Double Drummer<\/strong> aka Thopha saccata is an Australian cicada. It exists on the east coast of Australia and prefers eucalyptus trees<sup>2<\/sup>. The Double Drummer is a large cicada, as you can see from <a href=\"\/cicadas\/more-cicada-photos-from-australia\/\">this photo<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Dundubia<\/strong> is a genus of cicada that exists in Asia. See <a href=\"\/cicadas\/tymbals-of-the-cicada-of-genus-dundubia\/\">a photo of a disected Dundbia<\/a> on Cicada Mania. <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Dog Days <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/dog%20days\">http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/dog%20days<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Australian Cicadas<\/strong> by M.S. Moulds.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D is for Dog-Day Cicada. The Tibicen canicularis, aka Dog-Day Cicada, is thought to be known as the Dog-Day Cicada because they are most active during the &#8220;dog days of summer&#8221;, which are the days when the star Sirius is visible in the Northern Hemishphere (July 3-August 11)1. Canicularis is derived from the Latin word [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cicada-alphabet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}