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Species Okanagana viridis

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 viridis (Okanagana viridis)
Other Common Names
Okanagana viridis Davis 1918a (153)
Referred to as the "cotton-green Cicada"
Range
Officially reported from western Mississippi, ne. Louisiana, Arkansas, w. Tennessee & ne. Texas (unofficial reports from se. Oklahoma panhandle adj to Arkansas)
Habitat
Forested areas along watersheds and edge forests to the Black belt Prairie remnants
Season
June-July (early August)