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Species Chlorocanta viridis

First documented O. viridis Nymph!!! - Chlorocanta viridis - female

O. viridis Stuck in Shell - Chlorocanta viridis - female

C. viridis Nymph - Chlorocanta viridis - male

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 Chlorocanta

Species viridis (Chlorocanta viridis)

Other Common Names

Referred to as the "cotton-green Cicada"

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Chlorocanta viridis (Davis, 1918)

= Okanagana viridis Davis 1918

Identification

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Range

e.TX-w.MS-s.AR-se.OK - Map (1)

Habitat

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

Season

mostly: Jun-Aug (1)

Remarks

Recently moved from the genus Okanagana.

See Also

Cicadetta

Print References

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

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. (2)

Works Cited

1.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

2.	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, antarctica
Last updated 1 October, 2023 - 5:19pm

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