Magicicada septendecim

Magicicada septendecim
Magicicada septendecim
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Family: Cicadidae
Genus: Magicicada
Species: M. septendecim
Binomial name
Magicicada septendecim
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Magicicada septendecim, sometimes called the Pharaoh cicada, is a species of periodical cicada with a 17-year life cycle, native to Canada and the United States. First described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758, based on specimens sent to him by the Swedish botanist Pehr Kalm, it is the largest and most northern of the three known species of 17-year cicadas.[2]

Like other species included in Magicicada, its eyes and wing veins are reddish and its dorsal thorax is black. It is distinguished by broad orange stripes on its abdomen and a unique high-pitched song said to resemble someone calling "weeeee-whoa" or "Pharaoh,"[3] features it shares with the newly discovered 13-year species Magicicada neotredecim.[4]

Because of similarities between M. septendecim and the two closely related 13-year species M. neotredecim and M. tredecim, the three species are often described together as "decim periodical cicadas."

References

  1. ^ World Conservation Monitoring Centre (1996). "Magicicada septendecim". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2.3. International Union for Conservation of Nature. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/12691. Retrieved August 10, 2007. 
  2. ^ Alexander, Richard D.; Thomas E. Moore (1962). "The Evolutionary Relationships of 17-Year and 13-Year Cicadas, and Three New Species (Homoptera, Cicadidae, Magicicada)". University of Michigan Museum of Zoology. http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/walker/buzz/c700lam62.pdf. Retrieved 9 June 2011. 
  3. ^ Stranahan, Nancy. "Nature Notes from the Eastern Forest". Arc of Appalachia. http://www.highlandssanctuary.org/nature.notes.1.cicada/nature.notes.htm. Retrieved 10 June 2011. 
  4. ^ "Periodical Cicada Page". University of Michigan. http://insects.ummz.lsa.umich.edu/fauna/Michigan_Cicadas/Periodical/. Retrieved 10 June 2011. 

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