{"id":4683,"date":"2017-12-10T01:01:02","date_gmt":"2017-12-10T08:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=4683"},"modified":"2026-02-08T14:34:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T21:34:28","slug":"the-world-cup-cicada-chremistica-ribhoi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/the-world-cup-cicada-chremistica-ribhoi\/","title":{"rendered":"The World Cup Cicada, Chremistica ribhoi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update: this cicada has a Leap-Year Brood (2024) as well as a World-Cup Brood (2026)! Both have 4-year year life cycle.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Chremistica ribhoi<\/em> Hajong and Yaakop 2013 is a cicada that lives in the Ri-Boi district of India. C. ribhoi is known as the World Cup cicada because it emerges every four years in synch with the World Cup association football (soccer) tournament. <\/p>\n

C. ribhoi is known locally as Niangtasar. It only lives in a very small area: Saiden village (25°51’37.1"N 91°51’16.3"E) and Lailad\/Nongkhyllem Wildlife Sanctuary (25°55’09.7"N 91°46’25.0"E) situated on the northern part of the state of Meghalaya. The cicada can be identified by the presence of two white spots on either side of the anterior abdominal segment.<\/p>\n

Researcher Sudhanya Hajong is gearing up to study these cicadas since this is the year they will emerge. Ri-Boi area locals use these cicadas as a food source and fish bait. These cicadas are threatened by deforestation (cutting down forests for agricultural purposes). Sudhanya plans to educate locals about conserving them and protecting their habitat. <\/p>\n

Photos of Chremistica ribhoi<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Most of the facts in the post come from the following document: Hajong, S.R. 2013. Mass emergence of a cicada (Homoptera: Cicadidae) and its capture methods and consumption by villagers in ri-bhoi district of Meghalaya<\/strong>. Department of Zoology, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong – 793 022, Meghalaya, India.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Chris Simon<\/a> of The Simon Lab at UCONN for providing the information that made this post possible.<\/p>\n

Note: the image in this article is not an accurate depiction of C. ribhoi. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n


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There’s also a brood of C. ribhoi that emerges during Leap-years. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Update: this cicada has a Leap-Year Brood (2024) as well as a World-Cup Brood (2026)! Both have 4-year year life cycle. Chremistica ribhoi Hajong and Yaakop 2013 is a cicada that lives in the Ri-Boi district of India. C. ribhoi is known as the World Cup cicada because it emerges every four years in synch […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,69,155,226,445],"tags":[227],"class_list":["post-4683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chremistica","category-india","category-periodical","category-sudhanya-hajong","category-cryptotympanini","tag-c-ribhoi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4683","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=4683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}