Cicadidae

Cicadidae, the true cicadas, is one of two families of cicadas, with about 3,400 species in over 520 genera worldwide; it contains most living cicada species, except for the two belonging to its sister taxon, the Tettigarctidae. The classification of this family, of often very similar insects, has undergone many revisions, continuing into the 21st century; for example, many species previously assigned to the type genus Cicada, are now placed in different tribes.

Cicadidae

Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
cicadaPBDB
Sits inside
CicadoideaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 174 million years on record.

The record covers at least 174.7 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 184.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 1 of 72 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 3 of 72 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 5 of 72 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 72 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 6 of 72 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 72 occurrencesEocene — about 9 of 72 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 72 occurrencesMiocene — about 22 of 72 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 12 of 72 occurrencesPleistocene — about 7 of 72 occurrences188–182 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences182–175 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences175–169 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences169–163 Mya — about 2 occurrences163–157 Mya — about 5 occurrences157–150 Mya — about 1 occurrence106–100 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences100–94 Mya — about 6 occurrences94–88 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences63–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–50 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences50–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–31 Mya — about 7 occurrences31–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–19 Mya — about 4 occurrences19–13 Mya — about 8 occurrences13–6.3 Mya — about 8 occurrences6.3–0 Mya — about 23 occurrences174.7 Mya11.7 ka188 Mya0 Mya

72 occurrences of Cicadidae on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

72 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

20 formations

Daohugou — 41.32°N, 119.24°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WMiyajima — 36.98°N, 139.82°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°ENingyotoge — 35.31°N, 134.00°EMessel — 49.93°N, 8.75°EHaruki — 35.50°N, 134.44°EMenat — 46.10°N, 2.90°ESalt — 47.69°N, 7.53°ENiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EFort Union — 45.15°N, 109.17°WLa Toca — 19.22°N, 70.67°WFonseca — 20.16°S, 43.30°WKannotaira — 38.71°N, 140.55°ESagul — 39.98°N, 70.43°ECampagne-Calavon — 43.85°N, 5.58°EOya — 32.64°N, 130.17°EBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WMasaragawa — 38.25°N, 138.41°E

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The named rock units Cicadidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 32 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cicadidae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cicadidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,903 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 42 sites for Cicadidae, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

43 references

Each of the 72 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 31 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Cicadidae

Credit
Charles J. Sharp
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Latreille 1802