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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 » Mountain Cicada (Okanagana bella)

Species Okanagana bella - Mountain Cicada

Classification · Identification · Range · Remarks · Print References
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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 bella (Mountain Cicada)
Identification
Identification usually requires exposed views of the uncus; both dorsal and lateral, and multiple other views. Generally best identified by a specimen except where there aren't any similar species.
Range
The entire western US and southern western Canada
Remarks
Without a recording of the song this species is extremely difficult to separate from similar species. Best left at genus level unless it isn't found with taxa it can be confused with.

Song
Peak Frequency: 9.9 +/- 0.8 kHz
Syllable Rate 27.4 +/- 2 beats/second
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.
Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 30 August, 2005 - 7:18pm
Additional contributions by Will Chatfield-Taylor, v belov
Last updated 31 October, 2019 - 8:57pm

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