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

Magicicada tredecassini is a species of periodical cicada endemic to the United States. It has a 13-year lifecycle but is otherwise indistinguishable from the 17-year periodical cicada Magicicada cassini. The two species are usually discussed together as "cassini periodical cicadas" or "cassini-type periodical cicadas." Unlike other periodical cicadas, cassini-type males may synchronize their courting behavior so that tens of thousands of males sing and fly in unison.

Life cycle

Their median life cycle from egg to natural adult death is around thirteen years. However, their life cycle can range from nine years to seventeen years.

References

1. "Periodical Cicada Page". University of Michigan. Retrieved 10 June 2011.
2. Capinera, John L. (2008). Encyclopedia of Entomology. Springer. p. 2792. ISBN 978-1-4020-6242-1.
3. 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
4. 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.

• Insects described in 1962
• Lamotialnini
• Endemic insects of the United States