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Subspecies Okanagana tristis rubrobasalis

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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 Tibicininae
Tribe Tibicinini
Genus Okanagana
Species tristis (Okanagana tristis)
Subspecies rubrobasalis (Okanagana tristis rubrobasalis)
Identification
Similar to Okanagana cruentifera but differs primarily in the shape of the valve and uncus, wing shape, and the prominence of the front. Song is fairly distinctive.
Remarks
A cumulative protoperiodical cicada; emerging after a cumulative rainfall threshold has been reached.
See Also
O. cruentifera
Internet References
Davis, W.T. 1926. New Cicadas from California and Arizona with Notes of Several other Species. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 34.
Contributed by Jeffrey Cole on 24 September, 2008 - 6:32pm
Additional contributions by Will Chatfield-Taylor
Last updated 18 September, 2019 - 4:56am

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