Neotibicen bermudianus
Appearance
Neotibicen bermudianus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hemiptera |
Suborder: | Auchenorrhyncha |
Family: | Cicadidae |
Genus: | Neotibicen |
Species: | †N. bermudianus
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Binomial name | |
†Neotibicen bermudianus (Verrill, 1902)
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Neotibicen bermudianus, also colloquially known as the Bermuda cicada, is an extinct species of annual cicada that was endemic to the island of Bermuda.[1][2]
Taxonomy
[edit]Neotibicen lyricen, the lyric cicada, of the Eastern United States is the most closely related species of Neotibicen behaviorally, morphologically, and genetically to the Bermuda cicada.[3]
Extinction
[edit]Populations of this species were historically abundant on Bermuda, but they plummeted sharply in the middle 20th century after the decline of their preferred host, the Bermuda cedar.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Bermuda cicada. Bermuda Online".
- ^ "bermuda cicada". 3 August 2015.
- ^ Lee, Young June (December 2016). "Description of three new genera, Paratibicen, Gigatibicen, and Ameritibicen, of Cryptotympanini (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) and a key to their species". Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity. 9 (4): 448–454. doi:10.1016/j.japb.2016.09.002.
- ^ "Bermuda Cicada". The Department of Environment and Natural Resources. Retrieved 2023-10-02.