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Cicada

The cicadas (/sɪˈkɑːdəz, -ˈkeɪ-/) are a superfamily, the Cicadoidea, of insects in the order Hemiptera (true bugs). They are in the suborder Auchenorrhyncha, along with smaller jumping bugs such as leafhoppers and froghoppers. The superfamily is divided into two families, the Tettigarctidae, with two species in Australia, and the Cicadidae, with more…

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related to Further reading · 50
Cicada → Ancient Greece, Annette, Archived, August, Bibcode, Bug, Chinese Folklore, Cicadas, Clausen, Common New Zealand Insects, December, Douglas, Earth Life, Egan, Folklore, Frank, Garland, Gordon, Here's, Hoppensteadt
related to Taxonomy and diversity · 32
Cicada → America, Antarctica, Asia, At, Australia, Cercopoidea, Cicadas, Cicadettinae, Cicadidae, Cicadinae, Cicadoidea, Derotettiginae, Indonesia, Latin America, Malaysian, Megapomponia, Mexico, Most, New Zealand, Some
related to In art and literature · 29
Cicada → Animals, Appropriate, Aristotle, Arkansas, BCE, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's, Chinese, Chinese Shang, Cicadas, Days, Diaochan, Elder, Genji, Hesiod, History, Homer's Iliad, In, Japanese, Natural History, Pliny
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Cicada → April, Archived, Brood, CanadaCicadas, Cicada Mania, Cicadas, College, Diceroprocta, DrMetcalf, Florida, Florida/IFAS Featured Creatures, Greater Cincinnati Cicada Information, Information Site, July, Melampsalta, Mt Saint Joseph Cicada, Neocicada, Retrieved, Science News, Teaching Resources
related to Palaeontology · 20
Cicada → Australia, China, Cicadomorpha, England, Eurasia, Fossil Cicadomorpha, Jurassic, Late Triassic, Lower Cretaceous, Oxfordshire, Palaeontina, Palaeontinoidea, South Africa, South America, Taynton Limestone Formation, The, The Palaeontinidae, The Upper Permian Dunstaniidae, The Upper Triassic Mesogereonidae, This
related to As food and folk medicine · 17
Cicada → Africa, Ancient Greece, Balochistan, Burma, China, Chinese, Cicadas, Female, Magicicada, Malaysia, North America, Onondaga, Onondaga Brood, Pakistan, Shells, The, Ziarat
related to In music · 15
Cicada → Argentinian, Cicadas, Como La Cigarra, In, In North America, La Cigarra, Latin American, Like, Mariachi, María Elena Walsh, Mercedes Sosa, Mexico, Raymundo Perez Soto, The, The Cicada
related to Predators, parasites, and pathogens · 15
Cicada → Australia, Australian, Cicadas, Exeirus, In, In Australia, Isaria, Japan, Massospora, Newly, Ophiocordyceps, Several, Their, These, This
related to In mythology and folklore · 14
Cicada → Aesop's, Ant, China, Cicadas, Fourmi, In France, Jean, La Cigale, La Fontaine, Les, Mediterranean, Provence, The, The Cicada
related to Life cycle · 11
Cicada → After, Although, Both, Cicadas, In, Nymphs, Sometimes, The, The Tettigarctidae, They, When

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Cicadais asymbol of survival and defiance against death0.90text
leafhoppersinstance ofalong with smaller jumping bugs0.80text
froghoppersinstance ofalong with smaller jumping bugs0.80text
in Indonesiainstance ofThis high degree of endemism has been used to study the biogeography of complex island groups0.80text
Asiainstance ofThis high degree of endemism has been used to study the biogeography of complex island groups0.80text
cherry noseinstance ofMany of them have common names0.80text
brown bakerinstance ofMany of them have common names0.80text
red eyeinstance ofMany of them have common names0.80text
greengrocerinstance ofMany of them have common names0.80text
yellow Mondayinstance ofMany of them have common names0.80text
whisky drinkerinstance ofMany of them have common names0.80text
double drummerinstance ofMany of them have common names0.80text

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