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Cicada Mordoganensis
The cicadas () are a superfamily, the Cicadoidea, of insects in the order Hemiptera (true bugs). They are in the suborder Auchenorrhyncha, along with smaller jumping bugs such as leafhoppers and froghoppers. The superfamily is divided into two families, the Tettigarctidae, with two species in Australia, and the Cicadidae, with more than 3,000 species described from around the world; many species remain undescribed. Cicadas have prominent eyes set wide apart, short antennae, and membranous front wings. They have an exceptionally loud song, produced in most species by the rapid buckling and unbuckling of drumlike tymbals. The earliest known fossil Cicadomorpha appeared in the Upper Permian period; extant species occur all around the world in temperate to tropical climates. They typically live in trees, feeding on watery sap from xylem tissue, and laying their eggs in a slit in the bark. Most cicadas are cryptic. The vast majority of species are active during the day as adults, ...
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Neotibicen Linnei
''Neotibicen linnei'', commonly called Linne's cicada, is a species of large bodied annual cicada in the genus '' Neotibicen''. It is native to the Eastern United States and Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tota .... ''N. linnei'' in Oklahoma is most easily identified by the coastal margin bent at the end of the radial cell and opercula truncated obliquely at the extremities. References Hemiptera of North America Insects described in 1907 Cryptotympanini {{Cicadidae-stub ...
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