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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 » Leptopsaltriini » Neocicada » Hieroglyphic Cicada (Neocicada hieroglyphica)

Species Neocicada hieroglyphica - Hieroglyphic Cicada

Classification · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Remarks · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Cicada and Moth - Neocicada hieroglyphica

Heiroglyphic Cicada? - Neocicada hieroglyphica

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 Leptopsaltriini

Genus Neocicada

Species hieroglyphica (Hieroglyphic Cicada)

Numbers

2 poorly differentiated subspecies have been described. There appears to be little if any difference in calling song and there is some overlapping phenotypic plasticity in both described subspecies.

Neocicada hieroglyphica ssp. hieroglyphica

Neocicada hieroglyphica ssp. johannis

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.

Neocicada hieroglyphica is a widely distributed species occurring across the eastern US from NJ south to FL - west across the Gulf states upper southeast & southern Mid-West, extending west into the eastern Plains south into e. Texas and n. Mexico (incl. two subspecies with rather poorly defined delineation in traits)

Habitat

Forests, esp. near oaks.

Season

June-July

Remarks

Guide TBA--PC.

Neocicada hieroglyphica var johannis

Neocicada chisos

Print References

Brimley TBA (1)

Internet References

SINA

Ohio State Univ.--gives range

Cicadas of Kansas

Works Cited

1.	Insects of North Carolina C.S. Brimley. 1938. North Carolina Department of Agriculture.

Contributed by Cotinis on 22 January, 2005 - 9:35am
Additional contributions by Mike Boone, David Ferguson, Bill Reynolds
Last updated 3 December, 2012 - 10:11pm

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