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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) » Cicadettinae » Lamotialnini » Periodical Cicadas (Magicicada) » Linnaeus' Periodical Cicada (Magicicada septendecim)

Species Magicicada septendecim - Linnaeus' Periodical Cicada

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Life Cycle · See Also · Print References · Internet References

Periodical Cicada (Brood X) - Magicicada septendecim

17 year periodical cicada - Brood X - Magicicada septendecim

Another striped periodical cicada - Magicicada septendecim

Periodical Cicada - Brood X - Magicicada - Magicicada septendecim

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 Cicadettinae

Tribe Lamotialnini

Genus Magicicada (Periodical Cicadas)

Species septendecim (Linnaeus' Periodical Cicada)

Other Common Names

Seventeen Year Periodical Cicada, Pharaoh cicada, 17 year cicada or 17 year locust

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Magicicada septendecim (Linnaeus)

Orig. Comb: Cicada septendecim Linnaeus 1758

Explanation of Names

From Latin septendecim "seventeen" (septem "seven" + decem "ten").

Size

body length (front of head to tip of subgenital plate) circa 28-29 mm (Alexander and Moore, 1962)

Identification

Thick orange bands on sternites, extend past the spiracles up the sides of the abdomen.

Pleura orange to dark red.

Some aberrants have black pleura, but the abdomen stays the same.

Life Cycle

17-year species.

See Also

Magicicada tredecim--its 13-year sibling species

Print References

Alexander, R. D., and T. E. Moore. 1962. The evolutionary relationships of 17-year and 13-year cicadas, and three new species (Homoptera, Cicadidae, Magicicada). Univ. of Mich. Mus. Zool. Misc. Pub. 121: 1-59 (PDF).

Marlatt, C.L. 1907. The periodical cicada. Bulletin of the USDA Bureau of Entomology 71: 1–181. (archive.org link)

Internet References

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Wikipedia

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 16 June, 2006 - 1:20pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Beatriz Moisset, Mike Quinn, v belov, zdanko
Last updated 3 June, 2021 - 1:30am

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