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Species Diceroprocta olympusa - Olympic Scrub Cicada

This handsom fellow needs a name. - Diceroprocta olympusa

Can this Cicada be id to genus? - Diceroprocta olympusa

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 Fidicinini

Genus Diceroprocta (Scrub Cicadas)

Species olympusa (Olympic Scrub Cicada)

Range

Peninsular Florida to MS and NC (much less commonly reported outside of FL)

Habitat

Has the most extensive distribution of any cicada in Florida and is found in all Florida ecoregions except the Everglades (Sanborn & Phillips 2013). Apparently most common in Scrub habitat, Pine flatwoods, open fields and roadsides.

Season

June-Sept

This cicada is an annual species with multiple overlapping generations.

Food

Often calls from trees but uses grasses as a host plant (Sanborn & Phillips 2013)

Life Cycle

UNKNOWN

(thought to be 2 or 3 years with overlapping generations)

Print References

Sanborn, A. F., & Phillips, P. K. (2013). Biogeography of the cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of North America, north of Mexico. Diversity, 5(2), 166-239.

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 Sean McCann on 15 August, 2007 - 9:12pm
Additional contributions by Bill Reynolds, metrioptera
Last updated 20 July, 2020 - 5:07am

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