Magicicada septendecula is a species of insect in family Cicadidae. It is endemic to the United States.
Magicicada septendecula | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hemiptera |
Suborder: | Auchenorrhyncha |
Family: | Cicadidae |
Genus: | Magicicada |
Species: | M. septendecula
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Binomial name | |
Magicicada septendecula Alexander & Moore, 1962
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Lifespan
editTheir 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- ^ 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.
- ^ 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