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Cicada

Insecta - Hemiptera - Cicadidae

Taxonomy

Cicada was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant. It is the type genus of Cicadinae, Cicadini, Cicadina, Cicadariae, Cicadae.

It was assigned to Gymnoptera by Schaeffer (1766); to Hemiptera by Linnaeus (1758), Schreber (1759), Linnaeus (1761), Geoffroy (1762), Müller (1764), Linnaeus (1767), Müller (1776), Latreille (1796); to Ryngota by Fabricius (1775), Fabricius (1798); to Cicadae by Latreille (1802); to Cicadidae by Scudder (1892); to Cicadina by Sanborn (2014); and to Cicadini by Moulds (2018), Marshall et al. (2018), Dmitriev (2020), Moulds et al. (2023).

Species

C. heeri (syn. C. bifasciata), C. lodosi, C. orni, C. tithonus, C. viridis

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1758	Cicada Linnaeus p. 434
1759	Cicada Schreber p. 11
1761	Cicada Linnaeus p. 239
1762	Cicada Geoffroy p. 412
1764	Cicada Müller p. 25
1766	Cicada Schaeffer
1767	Cicada Linnaeus p. 704
1775	Cicada Fabricius p. 682
1776	Cicada Müller p. 102
1796	Cicada Latreille p. 89
1798	Cicada Fabricius p. 520
1802	Cicada Latreille p. 257
1892	Cicada Scudder p. 15
2014	Cicada Sanborn p. 320
2018	Cicada Marshall et al. p. 37
2018	Cicada Moulds
2020	Cicada Dmitriev p. 29
2023	Cicada Moulds et al. p. 466

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa	Aguinaldo et al. 1997
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
—	Deuteropoda
—	Mandibulata
—	Pancrustacea	Zrzavý and Štys 1997
—	Altocrustacea	Regier et al. 2010
superclass	Allotriocarida
—	Athalassocarida
—	Labiocarida	Schwentner et al. 2017
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
—	Cercofilata
class	Insecta

Rank	Name	Author
—	Dicondylia
—	Paranotalia
subclass	Pterygota	()
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
—	Clareocercaria
—	Acercaria	()
superorder	Pancondylognatha
—	Condylognatha
order	Hemiptera
suborder	Auchenorrhyncha	()
infraorder	Cicadomorpha	Evans 1946
superfamily	Cicadoidea
family	Cicadidae	()
subfamily	Cicadinae	()
tribe	Cicadini
genus	Cicada

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Cicada Linnaeus 1758

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†Cicada heeri Dmitriev 2020

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Invalid names: Cicada bifasciata Heer 1853 [replaced]

Cicada lodosi Boulard 1979

Cicada orni Linnaeus 1758

†Cicada tithonus Moulds et al. 2023

Cicada viridis Linnaeus 1758

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

chitinc

Environment:

terrestrialc

Locomotion:

actively mobilep

Created:

2017-04-17 09:56:18

Modified:

2017-04-17 09:56:18

Source: c = class, p = phylum

References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Sarmatian to the top of the Piacenzian or 12.80000 to 2.58000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 11.63 Ma

Collections (3 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Sarmatian	12.8 - 11.63	Croatia	C. bifasciata (117246)
Piacenzian	3.6 - 2.58	Germany (Niedersachsen)	C. lodosi, C. orni (109196) C. tithonus (155690)