Magicicada tredecim
Magicicada tredecim is a 13-year species of periodical cicada, closely related to the newly discovered 13-year species Magicicada neotredecim, from which it differs in male song pitch, female song pitch preferences, abdomen color, and mitochondrial DNA.[1][2] Both M. tredecim and M. neotredecim are closely related to the 17-year species M. septendecim, which was identified by Linnaeus in 1758; these three species are often grouped together under the name decim periodical cicadas.
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Description
Like other species included in its genus, M. tredicim has reddish eyes and wing veins. Its dorsal thorax is black.[3] The underside of the abdomen of M. tredecim is light orange or caramel colored, lacking the dark bands seen in M. neotredicim and M. septendecim.[4]
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.[5]
Habitat, distribution, and cicada "broods"
Magicicada species occur across the southeastern United States. M. tredecim was the first to be described of the four species with a 13-year lifecycle. It has been observed in all of the three extant broods of 13-year cicadas: Brood XIX, Brood XXII, and Brood XXIII.
References
- "Periodical Cicada Page". University of Michigan. Retrieved 10 June 2011.
- "Magicicada neotredecim Marshall and Cooley 2000". National Geographic Society. Retrieved 10 June 2011.
- Alexander, Richard D; Thomas E. Moore (1962). "The Evolutionary Relationships of 17-Year and 13-Year Cicadas, and Three New Species (Homoptera, Cicadidae, Magicicada)" (PDF). U Michigan Museum of Zoology. Retrieved 9 June 2011.
- "Magicicada tredecim (Walsh and Riley 1868)". National Geographic Society. Retrieved 12 June 2011.
- 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): 3. doi:10.1073/pnas.1421386112. Retrieved 13 October 2020.