Species Okanagana viridis

Classification · Other Common Names · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Remarks · See Also · Print References · Works Cited

Okanagana viridis - Okanagana viridis - female

First O. viridis of 2022 - Okanagana viridis - female

O. viridis Stuck in Shell - Okanagana viridis - female

Last O. viridis of 2022 - Okanagana viridis - female

Only male O. viridis of 2022 - Okanagana viridis

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 viridis (Okanagana viridis)

Other Common Names

Referred to as the "cotton-green Cicada"

Explanation of Names

Okanagana viridis Davis 1918

Identification

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Range

Officially reported from western Mississippi, ne. Louisiana, Arkansas, w. Tennessee & ne. Texas Specimens collected from se. Oklahoma adj to TX & Arkansas)

Habitat

Forested areas along watersheds and edge forests to the Black belt Prairie remnants

Season

June-July (early August)

Remarks

An allopatric member of Okanagana and the only species in the southeast.

See Also

Cicadetta

Print References

Hill, K.B.R., and D.C. Marshall. 2013. The Song, Morphology, Habitat, and Distribution of the Elusive North American Cicada Okanagana viridis (Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 106(5): 598-603. (1)

Works Cited

1.	The Song, Morphology, Habitat, and Distribution of the Elusive North American Cicada Okanagana viridis (Cicadidae) Hill, K.B.R., and D.C. Marshall. 2013. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 106(5): 598-603.

Contributed by Bill Reynolds on 23 June, 2010 - 4:42pm
Additional contributions by Will Chatfield-Taylor, Mike Quinn
Last updated 18 June, 2020 - 1:04pm

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