Cicadettana calliope

Cicadettana calliope is a species of cicada in the family Cicadidae, found in North America.[1] The species was formerly a member of the genus Cicadetta.[2]

Cicadettana calliope
Cicadettana calliope calliope, Oklahoma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Family: Cicadidae
Genus: Cicadettana
Species:
C. calliope
Binomial name
Cicadettana calliope
(Walker, 1850)
Cicadettana calliope calliope

Life Cycle

Their median total life cycle length is around four years, this being from egg to a natural adult death.[3]

Subspecies

These two subspecies belong to the species Cicadetta calliope:

  • Cicadetta calliope calliope (Walker, 1850)
  • Cicadetta calliope floridensis (Davis, 1920)

References

  1. Marshall, David C.; Hill, Kathy B. R. (2017). "A new genus for North American Cicadetta species (Hemiptera: Cicadidae)". Zootaxa. 4306 (4): 537–550. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4306.4.5.
  2. Campbell, Matthew (18 August 2015). "Genome expansion via lineage splitting and genome reduction in the cicada endosymbiont Hodgkinia - Supporting Information" (PDF). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 112 (33): 3. doi:10.1073/pnas.1421386112. Retrieved 13 October 2020.

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