Species Okanagana canadensis

Classification · Identification

Okanagana canadensis? - Okanagana canadensis

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 Tettigadinae

Genus Okanagana

Species canadensis (Okanagana canadensis)

Identification

This is the common northern species. It has longer, more pointed wings than O. bella. It gets up into the NWT, the furthest north for anywhere in the world (Nipawin is on the edge of the boreal forest, so this is "southern" for this species).

… Andy Hamilton, 11 July, 2008

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 16 July, 2008 - 6:21pm

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