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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 » Tibicen » Swamp Cicada (Tibicen tibicen)

Species Tibicen tibicen - Swamp Cicada

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Tibicen chloromera - Tibicen tibicen - female

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 Tibicen

Species tibicen (Swamp Cicada)

Other Common Names

Morning Cicada, Green Annual Cicada (coinage, perhaps a more appropriate name)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Tibicen chloromerus (Walker, 1850), the widely used name, has been shown to be a junior synonym of Tibicen tibicen (L.) (Sanborn, 2008, see also Cicadas of Michigan).

Tibicen chloromera (gender/spelling--see discussion on Tibicen page.)

Numbers

Very common in southeastern United States.

Identification

pronotal collar black; pronotal shoulder patches large, solid green; mesonotum largely black; conspicuous dorsolateral white spot where abdomen meets thorax; abdomen beneath with midline only slightly darker than rest, sometimes only at base of each sternite

Reported to call from 8-11 a.m., with a "rising crescendo" call lasting about eight seconds. (See: Cicada Info.)

Range

Includes southeastern United States

Habitat

Deciduous forests

Season

June-October (North Carolina)

Remarks

The long-standing name for this common species, Tibicen chlormera, has apparently been changed to Tibicen tibicen based on priority. See Synonyms and references. --Cotinis 17 October 2008.

Print References

Brimley, p. 86, lists as most common species in its genus from North Carolina. (1)

Sanborn, 2008. The Identity Of Cicada tibicen Linné [=Tibicen chloromerus (Walker, 1850)] (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae). Entomological News 119(3): 227–231 (abstract)

Internet References

Cirrus Imaging

Cicada Central

Checklist of Cicadas North of Mexico--gives the common name "Swamp Cicada".

Cicadas of Michigan--photos of specimen, song

SINA--songs, including this species

key to cicadas of Michigan (adapted from other authors; U. of Michigan)

Works Cited

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

Contributed by Cotinis on 11 September, 2004 - 6:14am
Additional contributions by Robin McLeod, Mike Quinn
Last updated 17 October, 2008 - 1:41pm

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