Cicadettana calliope explained

Cicadettana calliope is a species of cicada in the family Cicadidae, found in North America. The species was formerly a member of the genus Cicadetta.

Life Cycle

Their median total life cycle length is around four years, this being from egg to a natural adult death.^[1]

Subspecies

These two subspecies belong to the species Cicadetta calliope:

• Cicadetta calliope calliope (Walker, 1850)
• Cicadetta calliope floridensis (Davis, 1920)

Further reading

• Book: Catalogue of the Cicadoidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). 2013. Sanborn . Allen. Academic Press. 9780124166479.

Notes and References

1. Campbell . Matthew . Genome expansion via lineage splitting and genome reduction in the cicada endosymbiont Hodgkinia - Supporting Information . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . 18 August 2015 . 112 . 33 . 10192–10199 . 10.1073/pnas.1421386112 . 26286984 . 4547289 . 13 October 2020. free .