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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) » Tibicininae » Tibicinini » Okanagana » Okanagana noveboracensis

Species Okanagana noveboracensis

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · Range · Remarks · Print References

Unknown Cicada - Okanagana noveboracensis

Okanagana of New-Brunswick - Okanagana noveboracensis - female

Okanagana canadensis - Okanagana noveboracensis

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 Tibicininae

Tribe Tibicinini

Genus Okanagana

Species noveboracensis (Okanagana noveboracensis)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Okanagana noveboracensis (Emmons, 1854)

= Cicada noveboracensis Emmons, 1854

= Cicada canadensis Provancher, 1889

= Tibicen noveboracensis (Emmons, 1854)

= Tibicen canadensis (Provancher, 1889)

= Tibicen rimosa noveboracensis (Emmons, 1854)

= Okanagana canadensis (Provancher, 1889)

Identification

Similar to Okanagana rimosa, but separated by the dull dorsum and lack of red borders to abdominal tergites.

Range

Across Canada and occasionally into the northern US.

Remarks

Okanagana canadensis (Provancher, 1889) was recently sunk into this species in Cole et al. 2023.

This is the common northern species. It has longer, more pointed wings than O. bella. It gets up into the NWT, the furthest north for anywhere in the world (Nipawin is on the edge of the boreal forest, so this is "southern" for this species).

… Andy Hamilton, 11 July, 2008

Song:

Syllable Rate: 24.7 +/- 0.9 beats/s

Peak Frequency: 8.9 +/- 0.5kHz

Print References

Chatfield-Taylor, W. and Cole, J.A. 2019. Noisy neighbors among the selfish herd: mate recognition within cicada emergences mediated by a critical song distance (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadidae: Okanagana). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. XX. 1-11.

Cole, J.A., Chatfield-Taylor, W., Smeds, E.A., Cooley, J.R., Gonzalez, V.A. & Wong, C. (2023) Phylogeny of North America’s largest cicada radiation redefines Tibicinoides and Okanagana (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadidae: Tibicininae). Zootaxa, 5346(5), 501–531. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5346.5.1

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 16 July, 2008 - 6:21pm
Additional contributions by Will Chatfield-Taylor, antarctica
Last updated 1 October, 2023 - 6:04pm

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