Biology:Magicicada tredecassini

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Short description: Species of true bug

Magicicada tredecassini
Magicicada tredecassini NC XIX male dorsal trim.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Family: Cicadidae
Genus: Magicicada
Species:
M. tredecassini
Binomial name
Magicicada tredecassini
(Alexander & Moore, 1962)
Main page: Biology:Cassini periodical cicadas

Magicicada tredecassini is a species of periodical cicada endemic to the United States . It has a 13-year lifecycle but is otherwise indistinguishable from the 17-year periodical cicada Magicicada cassini. The two species are usually discussed together as "cassini periodical cicadas" or "cassini-type periodical cicadas." Unlike other periodical cicadas, cassini-type males may synchronize their courting behavior so that tens of thousands of males sing and fly in unison.[1][2][3]

Life cycle

Their median life cycle from egg to natural adult death is around thirteen years. However, their life cycle can range from nine years to seventeen years.[4]

References

  1. "Periodical Cicada Page". University of Michigan. http://insects.ummz.lsa.umich.edu/fauna/Michigan_Cicadas/Periodical/. Retrieved 10 June 2011. 
  2. Capinera, John L. (2008). Encyclopedia of Entomology. Springer. p. 2792. ISBN 978-1-4020-6242-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=i9ITMiiohVQC. 
  3. Alexander, Richard D; Moore, Thomas Edwin (1962), The Evolutionary Relationships of 17-year and 13-year Cicadas, and Three New Species (Homoptera, Cicadidae, Magicicada), Ann Arbor: Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 
  4. Campbell, Matthew (18 August 2015). "Genome expansion via lineage splitting and genome reduction in the cicada endosymbiont Hodgkinia - Supporting Information". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 112 (33): 10192–10199. doi:10.1073/pnas.1421386112. PMID 26286984. PMC 4547289. https://www.pnas.org/content/suppl/2015/05/16/1421386112.DCSupplemental/pnas.201421386SI.pdf. Retrieved 13 October 2020. 

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