Auritibicen japonicus by Osamu Hikino. Japan.
March 20, 2020
March 7, 2019
Auritibicen flammatus
There are five sub-species of Auritibicen flammatus. They are found in Japan and known as Aka-ezo-zemi.
Auritibicen flammatus adonis photo by Osamu Hikino.
Scientific classification:
Family: Cicadidae
Subfamily: Cicadinae
Tribe: Cryptotympanini
SubTribe: Cryptotympanina
Genus: Auritibicen (formerly Lyristes and Tibicen)
Subspecies:
- Auritibicen flammatus adonis Kato, 1933
- Auritibicen flammatus concolor Kato, 1934
- Auritibicen flammatus flammatus (Distant, 1892)
- Auritibicen flammatus nakamurai Kato, 1940
- Auritibicen flammatus viridiflavus Kato, 1939
For more information about Auritibicen flammatus, visit Cicadae in Japan.
Species name information comes from Allen Sanborn’s Catalogue of the Cicadoidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha).
February 12, 2019
Auritibicen kyushyuensis (Kato, 1926)
Auritibicen kyushyuensis is found in Japan and is known as Kyushu-ezo-zemi.
Auritibicen kyushyuensis photo by Osamu Hikino:
Scientific classification:
Family: Cicadidae
Subfamily: Cicadinae
Tribe: Cryptotympanini
SubTribe: Cryptotympanina
Genus: Auritibicen (formerly Lyristes and Tibicen)
Species: Auritibicen kyushyuensis (Kato, 1926)
For more information about this cicada, visit Cicadae in Japan.
February 11, 2019
Auritibicen japonicus
There are ten sub-species of Auritibicen japonicus. They are found in Japan and known as Ezo-zemi.
Photo of a male Auritibicen japonicus by Osamu Hikino.
Photo of an Auritibicen japonicus by Osamu Hikino:
Scientific classification:
Family: Cicadidae
Subfamily: Cicadinae
Tribe: Cryptotympanini
SubTribe: Cryptotympanina
Genus: Auritibicen (formerly Lyristes and Tibicen)
Subspecies:
- Auritibicen japonicus echigo Kato, 1936
- Auritibicen japonicus hooshianus (Matsumura, 1936)
- Auritibicen japonicus immaculatus Kato, 1933
- Auritibicen japonicus interruptus Kato, 1943
- Auritibicen japonicus itoi Kato, 1939
- Auritibicen japonicus iwaoi Kato, 1939
- Auritibicen japonicus japonicus (Kato, 1925)
- Auritibicen japonicus kobayashii Kato, 1939
- Auritibicen japonicus niger Kato, 1933
- Auritibicen japonicus nigrofasciatus Kato, 1940
For more information about this cicada, visit Cicadae in Japan.
July 9, 2017
Cicadas of Japan
Photo: Auritibicen japonicus by Osamu Hikino.
Cicada season in Japan, like North America, seems to be best from June to September, peaking in August. Different cicada species emerge at different times of the year, but the majority of them are active during the summer.
The best website for the cicadas of Japan that I’ve come across is Cicadae in Japan which is run by Y. Saisho who co-wrote the amazing The Cicadidae of Japan book & CD.
I don’t have too many photos of cicadas from Japan on this site, but here are some of the more well known (Genus names may have changed recently):
Auritibicen flammatus (formerly Tibicen flammatus, Lyristes flammatus)
Photo by Osamu Hikino.
Auritibicen japonicus (formerly Tibicen japonicus, Lyristes japonicus)
Photo by Osamu Hikino.
Graptopsaltria nigrofuscata
Photo by Osamu Hikino.
Here’s a video from the YouTube:
Auritibicen kyushyuensis
Photo by Osamu Hikino.
Hyalessa maculaticollis
Platypleura kaempferi
Photo by Osamu Hikino.
Tanna japonensis
Photo by Osamu Hikino.
Euterpnosia chibensis
Photo by Osamu Hikino.
Yezoterpnosia nigricosta
Photo by Osamu Hikino.
Cicadas are very popular in Japan, and they find their way into pop culture (Anime, live action kids shows like Ultraman). This photo features a cicada toy when spun, makes a sound, some cicada clicker toys, a plush Oncotympana, a Seminingen (bad guy from Ultraman), and Yotsuba a green-haired girl who has caught a cicada (Lyristes japonicus perhaps):
Cicada News & Photos
The best place, I’ve found, to keep track of which cicadas are out in Japan is Twitter. You can search Twitter yourself for セミ and you’ll find many results — most Tweets are references to pop culture, but occasional photos and actual information about actual cicadas.
These are many of the Twitter feeds I follow. You don’t need to belong to Twitter to view their feeds, but it’s more fun if you join.
- ?? ?? ?????? SAISHO, Y. – the person who wrote the book on cicadas from Japan.
- Y.Kohei @YKohei3
- ????? @Cicada_Kaneko
- @cicadamania which is the twitter feed for this site
Bonus:
Here’s a video of a Yezoterpnosia nigricosta taken by Elias Bonaros:
July 10, 2015
Major Changes to the Tibicen genera
Sometimes you wake up and the whole world is different. See this cicada:
photo by me.
… when I went to sleep she was a Tibicen tibicen tibicen, but now I know she is a Neotibicen tibicen tibicen. 10 years ago, she was a Tibicen chloromera. 130 years ago, she was Cicada tibicen. Cicada names change as researchers discover their differences.
Two new papers have split the Tibicen (or Lyristes) genera into many genera: Tibicen (European Tibicen), Auritibicen (Tibicen of Asia/Japan), Neotibicen (mostly eastern North American Tibicen), and Hadoa (Tibicen of the western United States).
The first paper is Description of a new genus, Auritibicen gen. nov., of Cryptotympanini (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) with redescriptions of Auritibicen pekinensis (Haupt, 1924) comb. nov. and Auritibicen slocumi (Chen, 1943) comb. nov. from China and a key to the species of Auritibicen by Young June Lee, 2015, Zootaxa 3980 (2): 241—254. This paper establishes the new genera Auritibicen, and the members of the Tibicen/Lyristes genera fall into that genera. Here is a link. So, Tibicen flammatus aka Lyristes flammatus of Japan, for example, becomes Auritibicen flammatus.
Auritibicen flammatus photo by Osamu Hikino.
The second paper is Molecular phylogenetics, diversification, and systematics of Tibicen Latreille 1825 and allied cicadas of the tribe Cryptotympanini, with three new genera and emphasis on species from the USA and Canada (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadidae) by Kathy B. R. Hill, David C. Marshall, Maxwell S. Moulds & Chris Simon. 2015, Zootaxa 3985 (2): 219—251. This paper establishes the Neotibicen (Hill and Moulds), and Hadoa (Moulds) genera. This paper also sought to establish the Subsolanus genera for the Asian Tibicen/Lyristes species but the previously mentioned paper by Young June Lee has precedence because it was published first. Link to paper.
To recap, European Tibicen/Lyristes are Tibicen…
Tibicen plebejus photo by Iván Jesus Torresano García.
… Asian Tibicen/Lyristes are now Auritibicen. Mostly-eastern North American Tibicen are now Neotibicen, and Western North American Tibicen are now Hadoa. Note that, the catagorization is not due to location, but to genetic and physiological evaluation (read the papers).
Needless to say this website and others have a lot of name changing to do, but in the mean time, here’s where the North American species fall out:
| Neotibicen | |
|---|---|
| Tibicen auletes | Neotibicen auletes |
| Tibicen auriferus | Neotibicen auriferus |
| Tibicen canicularis | Neotibicen canicularis |
| Tibicen cultriformis | Neotibicen cultriformis |
| Tibicen davisi davisi | Neotibicen davisi davisi |
| Tibicen davisi harnedi | Neotibicen davisi harnedi |
| Tibicen dealbatus | Neotibicen dealbatus |
| Tibicen dorsatus | Neotibicen dorsatus |
| Tibicen figuratus | Neotibicen figuratus |
| Tibicen latifasciatus | Neotibicen latifasciatus |
| Tibicen linnei | Neotibicen linnei |
| Tibicen lyricen engelhardti | Neotibicen lyricen engelhardti |
| Tibicen lyricen lyricen | Neotibicen lyricen lyricen |
| Tibicen lyricen virescens | Neotibicen lyricen virescens |
| Tibicen pronotalis pronotalis | Neotibicen pronotalis pronotalis |
| Tibicen pronotalis walkeri | Neotibicen pronotalis walkeri |
| Tibicen pruinosus fulvus | Neotibicen pruinosus fulvus |
| Tibicen pruinosus pruinosus | Neotibicen pruinosus pruinosus |
| Tibicen resh | Neotibicen resh |
| Tibicen resonans | Neotibicen resonans |
| Tibicen robinsonianus | Neotibicen robinsonianus |
| Tibicen similaris | Neotibicen similaris |
| Tibicen superbus | Neotibicen superbus |
| Tibicen tibicen australis | Neotibicen tibicen australis |
| Tibicen tibicen tibicen | Neotibicen tibicen tibicen |
| Tibicen tremulus | Neotibicen tremulus |
| Tibicen winnemanna | Neotibicen winnemanna |
| Hadoa | |
| Tibicen bifidus | Hadoa bifida |
| Tibicen chiricahua | Hadoa chiricahua |
| Tibicen duryi | Hadoa duryi |
| Tibicen inauditus | Hadoa inaudita |
| Tibicen longioperculus | Hadoa longiopercula |
| Tibicen neomexicensis | Hadoa neomexicensis |
| Tibicen parallelus | Hadoa parallela |
| Tibicen simplex | Hadoa simplex |
| Tibicen texanus | Hadoa texana |
| Tibicen townsendii | Hadoa townsendii |
January 11, 2011
Cicadas from Japan
I re-scanned some old (10+ years old) photos from Osamu Hikino.
Graptopsaltria nigrofuscata:
Platypleura kaempferi (Fabricius, 1794):
Amazing camouflage!
A male Tanna japonensis:
A male Auritibicen japonicus:
A male Auritibicen japonicus:
