Neotibicen

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Genus of true bugs

title: "Neotibicen" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["cryptotympanini", "cicadidae-genera"] description: "Genus of true bugs" topic_path: "general/cryptotympanini" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neotibicen" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Genus of true bugs ::

| image = Neotibicen linnei.jpg | image_caption = Linne's cicada (Neotibicen linnei) | taxon = Neotibicen | authority = Hill & Moulds, 2015 Cicadas of the genus Neotibicen are large-bodied insects of the family Cicadidae that appear in summer or early fall in eastern North America and formerly Bermuda. Common names include cicada, harvestfly, jar fly, and the misnomer locust.

Taxonomy

In 2015, these species were moved from the genus Tibicen (now genus Lyristes Horvath, 1926), which was redefined in the twenty-first century to include only a few European species, while species from the Western United States and Mexico are now placed in a separate genus, Hadoa. In addition, several former Neotibicen species have been moved to the genus Megatibicen.

Species and subspecies

Description

Neotibicen cicadas are 1 - long, with characteristic green, brown, and black markings on the top of the thorax, and tented, membranous wings extending past the abdomen. The fore wings are about twice the length of the hindwings. Adults feed using their beak to tap into the xylem of plants; nymphs feed from the xylem of roots.

Neotibicen species are the most commonly encountered cicadas in the eastern United States. Unlike periodical cicadas, whose appearances aboveground occur at 13- or 17-year intervals, Neotibicen species can be seen every year, hence their nickname "annual cicadas". Despite their annual appearances, Neotibicen probably take multiple years to develop underground, because all cicada species for which life cycle lengths have been measured do so, except when growing as agricultural pests. Their annual reappearance is presumably due to overlapping generations.

Communication

Like other members of the subfamily Cicadinae, Neotibicen species have loud, complex songs, even (in many cases) with distinct song phrases.

Males produce loud calls in the afternoon or evening (depending on the species) to attract females. These sounds, distinctive for each species, are produced by specialized tymbal organs on the abdomen as in most cicadas. These calls range from a loud buzz to a long rattling sound, sometimes with a pulsating quality.

Predators

Many animals feed on cicadas, which usually occurs during the final days when they become easy prey near the ground. One of the more notable predators is the cicada killer, a large wasp that catches the dog-day cicada. After catching and stinging the insect to paralyze it, the cicada killer carries it back to its hole and drags it underground to a chamber where it lays its eggs in the paralyzed cicada. When the eggs hatch, the wasp larvae feed on the paralyzed, but still living, cicada.

Gallery

Image:Tibicen_chloromera_2005.jpg|Emerging N. tibicen, New Jersey, US Image:Malformed_Tibicen_chloromera.jpg|Malformed N. tibicen, New Jersey, US Image:Cicada_molting_animated-2.gif|Photo series of Neotibicen sp. moulting, Ohio, US File:Tibicen husks on fence 01.jpg|Husks left after moulting File:Mating Tibicen canicularis.jpg|Mating N. canicularis File:Cicada shell 1.jpg|Shell after molting, the head was up File:Cicada shell - close up of head.jpg|Close-up of the head area File:Annual cicada pupating 2024-08-12 No 1.jpg|Neotibicen cicada pupating File:Annual cicada pupating 2024-08-12 No 2.jpg|Neotibicen cicada pupating File:Annual cicada pupating 2024-08-12 No 3.jpg|Neotibicen cicada pupating

References

References

  1. "Cicadas of Michigan". University of Michigan Museum of Zoology.
  2. "Blind Pig & The Acorn".
  3. "Genus Neotibicen - Annual or Dogday Cicadas".
  4. (2021). "Opinion 2475 (Case 239) – Tibicina Kolenati, 1857 and Lyristes Horvath, 1926 (Insecta, Hemiptera): usage conserved by the suppression of Tibicen Berthold, 1827; Cicada Linnaeus, 1758 (Insecta, Hemiptera): usage conserved by designation of Cicada orni Linnaeus, 1758 as the type species". Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature.
  5. (2015). "Molecular phylogenetics, diversification, and systematics of Tibicen Latreille 1825 and allied cicadas of the tribe Cryptotympanini, with three new genera and emphasis on species from the USA and Canada (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadidae)". Zootaxa.
  6. Elliott, Lang, and Wil Hershberger. 2007. ''The Songs of Insects''. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. p. 184. {{ISBN. 0618663975
  7. (18 August 2015). "Genome expansion via lineage splitting and genome reduction in the cicada endosymbiont Hodgkinia | PNAS". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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  9. Elliott, Lang, and Wil Hershberger. 2007. ''The Songs of Insects''. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. p. 19. {{ISBN. 0618663975
  10. "Annual Cicada Neotibicen".
  11. "Cicada Killer Wasp Sphecius".
  12. "Pest Update (February 28, 2007)".

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