Bioacoustics of Cicada

Recordings

14,493 in audioBlast.

iNat171165067 Cicada

omeleta 2023-07-05 iNaturalist listen › record

iNat296760621 Cicada

tueck_crazy 2025-07-09 iNaturalist listen › record

iNat306029716 Cicada

Amanda Cogan Barber 2025-08-13 iNaturalist listen › record

iNat306029716 Cicada

Amanda Cogan Barber 2025-08-13 iNaturalist listen › record

iNat374842231 Cicada

Caroline H. S. 2026-06-24 iNaturalist listen › record

iNat395175652 Cicada

Jessee J. Smith 2026-08-15 iNaturalist listen › record

Cicada spec.

30 s

Strübing, Hildegard TSATSA listen › record

Cicada orni 133_7

192 s

David R. Ragge 1974-08-24 BAbio.acousti.ca listen › record

Cicada orni 868_1

120 s

P Rudkin 1994-06-21 BAbio.acousti.ca listen › record

iNat15135160 Ash Cicada (Cicada orni)

Antonio Xeira 2018-08-05 iNaturalist listen › record

iNat28228326 Ash Cicada (Cicada orni)

POIGNANT Germain 2019-07-04 iNaturalist listen › record

iNat29948008 Ash Cicada (Cicada orni)

Pedro Beja 2019-07-31 iNaturalist listen › record

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References

Publications audioBlast links to this taxon.

• Sueur, Jerome; Windmill, James F.C.; Robert, Daniel (2006) Tuning the drum: the mechanical basis for frequency discrimination in a Mediterranean cicada
• Farris, H.E.; Oshinsky, M.L.; Forrest, T.G.; Hoy, Ronald R. (2008) Auditory Sensitivity of an Acoustic Parasitoid (Emblemasoma sp., Sarcophagidae, Diptera) and the Calling Behavior of Potential Hosts
  Brain, Behavior and Evolution, 72, 16 - 26
  doi:10.1159/000139458
• Windmill, James F. C.; Sueur, J.; Robert, D. (2009) The next step in cicada audition: measuring pico-mechanics in the cicada's ear
  doi:10.1242/jeb.033019
• Costa, Gonçalo João; Nunes, Vera L.; Marabuto, Eduardo; Mendes, Raquel; Laurentino, Telma G.; Quartau, José Alberto; PAULO, OCTÁVIO S.; Simões, Paula Cristina (2017) Morphology, songs and genetics identify two new cicada species from Morocco: Tettigettalna afroamissa sp. nov. and Berberigetta dimelodica gen. nov. & sp. nov. (Hemiptera: Cicadettini)
  Zootaxa, 4237, 517
  doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4237.310.11646/zootaxa.4237.3.4
• Delorme, Quentin (2017) Caledopsalta gen. nov., a new genus for the New Caledonian cicadas previously assigned to Pauropsalta Goding & Froggatt, plus the description of four new species (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae)
  Austral Entomology
  doi:10.1111/aen.12295

Sources

The rows audioBlast holds for this taxon, each matched to the same Catalogue of Life node. Where a source classifies it differently, its own classification is kept.

Source	Its name	Its rank	Its family	Record
Plazi	Cicada	Genus	Cicadidae	Plazi/Cicada
iNaturalist	Cicada	Genus	Cicadidae	iNaturalist/205175
TSATSA	Cicada	Genus	—	TSA/Cicada
BAbio.acousti.ca	Cicada	Genus	Cicadidae	bio.acousti.ca/1638

Machine-readable

Bioschemas is in the head of this page. The Darwin Core RDF lives at the API address below, which negotiates JSON-LD and Turtle.

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