Kansas Grass Cicada

Cicadettana kansa · Order: Hemiptera · Family: Cicadidae

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Kansas Grass Cicada
Photo: Lucas Schrader, CC BY

The Kansas Grass Cicada was formerly classified in the genus Cicadetta. It is found in North America, which is also its native range.

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

It used to be placed in the genus Cicadetta.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it lives

It lives in North America.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it comes from

Its native range is North America.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it is found in the US

Recorded in 5 of 51 states and DC. Most records: Colorado, Kansas, Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma.

Darker = more records. Counts are museum and citizen-science records, not population size.

Source: GBIF

Months it is reported in the US

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Source: GBIF

More photos

Kansas Grass Cicada photo 2
Photo: iNaturalist user, CC0
Kansas Grass Cicada photo 3
Photo: Sam Kieschnick, CC BY
Kansas Grass Cicada photo 4
Photo: Greghig Jirheg, CC BY

Same family (Cicadidae)

Northern Dog-day CicadaNorthern Dog-day CicadaNeotibicen canicularisSwamp CicadaSwamp CicadaNeotibicen tibicenPharaoh CicadaPharaoh CicadaMagicicada septendecimAsh CicadaAsh CicadaCicada orniScissor GrinderScissor GrinderNeotibicen pruinosusSuperb Dog-day CicadaSuperb Dog-day CicadaNeotibicen superbus

Sources

  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicadettana_kansa

Look it up elsewhere: GBIF · iNaturalist · BugGuide · ITIS · Wikipedia

Text written 2026-10-29 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-29.

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