{"id":8755,"date":"2018-12-15T01:01:59","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T08:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=8755"},"modified":"2020-04-15T18:50:59","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T01:50:59","slug":"diceroprocta-alacris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/diceroprocta-alacris\/","title":{"rendered":"Diceroprocta alacris & Diceroprocta apache"},"content":{"rendered":"

Diceroprocta alacris<\/em><\/strong> & Diceroprocta apache<\/em><\/strong> are two cicadas, both found in Mexico<\/strong>. I’m covering them both in the same post because they were both formerly refrered to as Cicada transversa<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Diceroprocta apache<\/h2>\n

D. apache<\/em> was formerly known as Cicada transversa.<\/em> <\/p>\n

Scientific classification:<\/strong>
\nFamily: Cicadidae
\nSubfamily: Cicadinae
\nTribe: Cryptotympanini
\nSubTribe: Cryptotympanina
\nGenus: Diceroprocta<\/em>
\nSpecies: Diceroprocta apache<\/em> (Davis, 1921)\t<\/p>\n

D. apache<\/em>, aka Citrus Cicada, is also found in the southern United States<\/strong>. Visit this page to listen to its song<\/a>. <\/p>\n

D. apache<\/em> have triangle-shaped opercula. <\/p>\n

Cicada transversa illustration from Insecta. Rhychota.<\/strong> – note the shape of the triangular shape of the opercula:
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A photo of D. apache<\/em> from my collection. Same\/similar cicada? Maybe, maybe not. Note the opercula:
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Diceroprocta alacris<\/h2>\n

There are two subspecies: D. alacris alacris<\/em> (St\u00e5l, 1864) and D. alacris campechensis<\/em> Davis, 1938.<\/p>\n

Diceroprocta alacris<\/em> was formerly known as Cicada alacris<\/em> as well as Cicada transversa.<\/em> <\/p>\n

Scientific classification:<\/strong>
\nFamily: Cicadidae
\nSubfamily: Cicadinae
\nTribe: Cryptotympanini
\nSubTribe: Cryptotympanina
\nGenus: Diceroprocta<\/em>
\nSpecies: Diceroprocta alacris<\/em>
\nSubspecies: D. alacris alacris<\/em> (St\u00e5l, 1864)
\nSubspecies: D. alacris campechensis<\/em> Davis, 1938<\/p>\n

Two varieties of Cicada alacris – note the rounded shape of the operculum:
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References:<\/h3>\n
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  1. The illustration comes from Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta. Rhynchota. Hemiptera-Homoptera. Vol. 1.<\/strong> By W. L. Distant F.E.S. and The Rev. Canon W. W. Fowler, F.L.S. (1881-1905). Read it on the Biodiversity Heritage Library website<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  2. Species name verification comes from Allen Sanborn’s Catalogue of the Cicadoidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha)<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Diceroprocta alacris & Diceroprocta apache are two cicadas, both found in Mexico. I’m covering them both in the same post because they were both formerly refrered to as Cicada transversa. Diceroprocta apache D. apache was formerly known as Cicada transversa. Scientific classification: Family: Cicadidae Subfamily: Cicadinae Tribe: Cryptotympanini SubTribe: Cryptotympanina Genus: Diceroprocta Species: Diceroprocta apache […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,18,361,556,445,187],"tags":[231],"class_list":["post-8755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stal","category-diceroprocta","category-mexico","category-insecta-rhynchota-hemiptera-homoptera","category-cryptotympanini","category-william-t-davis-researchers","tag-d-apache"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8755","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=8755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}