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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Hoppers (Auchenorrhyncha) » Cicadas, Spittlebugs, Leafhoppers, and Treehoppers (Cicadomorpha) » Cicadas (Cicadoidea) » Cicadas (Cicadidae) » Cicadinae » Fidicini » Scrub Cicadas (Diceroprocta) » Green Winged Cicada (Diceroprocta vitripennis)

Species Diceroprocta vitripennis - Green Winged Cicada

Classification · Other Common Names · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · See Also · Internet References
Diceroprocta vitripennis - female Diceroprocta vitripennis - female cicada with reddish patches - Diceroprocta vitripennis Cicada - Diceroprocta vitripennis unknown cicada - Diceroprocta vitripennis Cicada - Diceroprocta vitripennis Cicada July 7 - Diceroprocta vitripennis Small cicada - Diceroprocta vitripennis
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)
Suborder Auchenorrhyncha (True Hoppers)
Infraorder Cicadomorpha (Cicadas, Spittlebugs, Leafhoppers, and Treehoppers)
Superfamily Cicadoidea (Cicadas)
Family Cicadidae (Cicadas)
Subfamily Cicadinae
Tribe Fidicini
Genus Diceroprocta (Scrub Cicadas)
Species vitripennis (Green Winged Cicada)
Other Common Names
"Green Winged Scrub Cicada"
Size
circa 25-27 mm
Identification
See comments under images.

Id. tips
D. vitripennis, like many other members of its Genus, lacks the "smoky Z" towards the ends of the forewings typical of many other cicadas (as is typical of most Tibicen species).
(The "smoky Z" = The radial and radiomedial cross veins of tegmina, forewing, being heavily infuscated or darkened).

According to the literature, the black pattern or bar across the face extends from eye to eye in vitripennis but fails to do so in the similar taxon "bequaerti."

Based on the available literature and associated updates in classification, greater clarification may be needed for better identification and separation of the following:
Diceroprocta viridifascia var. bequaerti, "Gulf Marsh Cicada"
Diceroprocta bequaerti
Diceroprocta vitripennis
Range
Southeastern USA extending north along the Mississippi River.

This species extends further north within the US than any other member of its Genus.

Recorded from the Following States: AL, MS, LA, TX, AR, OK, MO, TN, KY, IL, & MI (possibly occurs in a few adj. states)
Habitat
Seems most common in fields, scrub and early successional woodlands
Season
June-Sept
Food
Likely weedy perenniels
Life Cycle
UNKNOWN
(thought to be 2 or 3 seasons with overlapping generations)
Remarks
Some images currently placed under Diceroprocta vitripennis, may belong to the following taxon: Diceroprocta bequaerti
See Also
Diceroprocta species of the Southeast:
Diceroprocta biconica, The Key's Cicada
Diceroprocta olympusa, Florida Olympic Scrub Cicada
Diceroprocta viridifascia, Salt Marsh Cicada
Diceroprocta viridifascia var. bequaerti, "Gulf Marsh Cicada"
Diceroprocta bequaerti ("Gulf Marsh Cicada" = syn. of above taxon??)
Diceroprocta vitripennis
Internet References
Insect Singers, Sound files for North American Diceroprocta species can be found here - best site for sound files!
Insect Singers, Sound files for the eastern species
Insect Singers, Sound files for the western species
Contributed by William Ericson on 22 March, 2009 - 8:56pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, David Ferguson, Bill Reynolds
Last updated 14 May, 2014 - 1:07pm

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