Magicicada septendecula

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Magicicada septendecula
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Family: Cicadidae
Genus: Magicicada
Species:
M. septendecula
Binomial name
Magicicada septendecula
Alexander & Moore, 1962

Magicicada septendecula is a species of insect in family Cicadidae. It is endemic to the United States.

Lifespan[edit]

Their median lifespan from egg to natural adult death is around seventeen years. However, their lifespan can range between thirteen and twenty-one years.[2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ World Conservation Monitoring Centre (1996). "Magicicada septendecula". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T12692A3373704. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T12692A3373704.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  2. ^ Campbell, Matthew (18 August 2015). "Genome expansion via lineage splitting and genome reduction in the cicada endosymbiont Hodgkinia - Supporting Information" (PDF). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 112 (33): 10192–10199. doi:10.1073/pnas.1421386112. PMC 4547289. PMID 26286984. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
  • 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