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Species Diceroprocta olympusa - Olympic Scrub Cicada

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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 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)
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
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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