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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 · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Heiroglyphic Cicada - Neocicada hieroglyphica Hieroglyphic Cicada - Neocicada hieroglyphica Cicada - Neocicada hieroglyphica Cicada - Neocicada hieroglyphica Neocicada hieroglyphica - male Neocicada hieroglyphica - male Neocicada hieroglyphica var. johannis - Neocicada hieroglyphica - female 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)
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
Univ. Conn.
Cicadas of Florida
Cicadas.info
Will Hershberger
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
Last updated 10 July, 2005 - 10:42am

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