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Little 17-Year Cicada in Montgomery Co., Maryland (5/23/2021).

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Compare other Magicica species. Try to get photos of the abdomen or record audio. Brood X of this species has abdominal stripes with more black than orange. Song is diagnostic. Report unidentified Periodical Cicada species and read general info at the genus page. Excellent info at Cicada Mania web site.

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Magicicada septendecula


Conservation status
Near Threatened (IUCN 2.3)^[1]
Scientific 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

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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

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^ 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

Taxon identifiers
Magicicada septendecula	Wikidata: Q2213615 Wikispecies: Magicicada septendecula BioLib: 425774 BOLD: 644277 BugGuide: 57939 CoL: 3XGV7 EoL: 7237171 GBIF: 5792025 iNaturalist: 105099 ITIS: 847191 IUCN: 12692 NatureServe: 2.905813 NCBI: 44680

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Little 17-Year Cicada

Magicicada septendecula Alexander and Moore, 1962

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