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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » Free-living Hemipterans (Auchenorrhyncha) » Cicadoidea » Cicadas (Cicadidae) » Cicadinae » Neocicada » Hieroglyphic Cicada (Neocicada hieroglyphica)

Species Neocicada hieroglyphica - Hieroglyphic Cicada

Classification · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

I think this is a young Cicada - Neocicada hieroglyphica

unknown bug - Neocicada hieroglyphica - female

Emergence of Cicada - Neocicada hieroglyphica

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)

Suborder Auchenorrhyncha (Free-living Hemipterans)

Superfamily Cicadoidea

Family Cicadidae (Cicadas)

Subfamily Cicadinae

Genus Neocicada

Species hieroglyphica (Hieroglyphic Cicada)

Numbers

2 poorly differentiated subspecies have been described. There appears to be little if any difference in calling song and there is some overlapping phenotypic plasticity in both described subspecies.

Neocicada hieroglyphica ssp. hieroglyphica

Neocicada hieroglyphica ssp. johannis

Size

32 mm (head to tip of folded wings)

Identification

Quoting from Cicadas of Florida: Partial to oaks; first species to be heard in spring; song starts with a sequence of progressively softer whiney bursts and ends with an even whine.

Found in small colonies. Starts calling in morning and calls until dusk. Song is reported to sound like a model airplane warming up its engine.

Range

Southeastern United States: Kansas, Missouri, Louisiana, southern Maryland to Florida.

Habitat

Forests, esp. near oaks.

Season

June-July

Remarks

Guide TBA--PC.

Print References

Brimley TBA (1)

Internet References

SINA

Ohio State Univ.--gives range

Cicadas of Kansas

Works Cited

1.	Insects of North Carolina By C.S. Brimley

Contributed by Cotinis on 22 January, 2005 - 9:35am
Additional contributions by Mike Boone, William H. Reynolds
Last updated 8 March, 2012 - 2:56pm

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