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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) » Cicadinae » Tacuini » Hadoa » Hadoa parallela

Species Hadoa parallela

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · Remarks · See Also · Internet References

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 Cicadinae

Tribe Tacuini

Genus Hadoa

Species parallela (Hadoa parallela)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

First described in 1923 by William T. Davis

Tibicen parallelus

Changes in Generic status from Tibicen to Hadoa also results in changes from -us to -a in the endings of the species assigned to this new Taxon.

Identification

NOTE - Tibicen parallelus:

little if any frosted grey pruinosity

black pronotum & pronotal collar

slight orange patterning in the mesonotum

narrower wing margin than seen in chiricahua

dark eyes ("Charcoal to Blackish in color")

The call of this cicada is very odd and best described as an alternating pulsy whine interrupted by crackling static. Don't know why Sci-Fi writers/producers haven't yet used the call of this cicada as a sound effect ;)

Remarks

Please bear with us ;)

The Tibicen guide pages are still under construction. Western taxa have long been more difficult to id. based on limited lit. and considerable confusion interpreting original descriptions.

See Also

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"SMALL Tibicen Species"

Several of these smaller and "mostly western" species appear quite divergent from the eastern members and may deserve separate Generic status. (Additional work is much needed to better understand the species' relationships within this Genus.)

Tibicen bifidus (Davis 1916)

Tibicen simplex (syn. T. bifidus simplex Davis 1941)

Tibicen townsendi (Uhler 1905)

Tibicen chiricahua Davis 1923

Tibicen duryi Davis 1917

Tibicen chisosensis Davis 1934

Tibicen longioperculus Davis 1926

Tibicen inauditus Davis 1917

Tibicen texanus (syn. tigrina Davis 1927)

Tibicen parallelus Davis 1923

Tibicen montezuma (Distant 1881)

NOTE: As mentioned, the above arrangement is "hypothetical" and much of it is based on older classification schemes (+ per. observ. and per. comm.). Additional genetic analysis and detailed morphological studies may reveal different taxonomic relationships.

Internet References

Insect Singers, Sound files for North American Cicada species can be found here - best site for sound files!

Insect Singers, Sound files for the eastern Tibicen species

Insect Singers, Sound files for the western Tibicen species

Contributed by Bill Reynolds on 3 October, 2011 - 2:18pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Chuck Entz
Last updated 14 July, 2015 - 4:47pm

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