In this study, the authors collected 63 species, of which 15 species are only recorded in Vietnam, 2 described new to science, 8 distributed western north that is not found other regions, including: Eopycna indochinensis (Distant, 1913), Gaeana vitalisi Terpnosia rustica 1917), mesonotalis Semia majuscula Karenia hoanglienensis (Pham & Yang, 2012), Huechys tonkinensis 1917); and Scieroptera...

Tree fruit orchards in some Mid-Atlantic states are within the geographic range of 17-year periodical cicada Brood X, Magicicada septendecim (L.) and M. cassini (Fisher) (Hemiptera: Cicadidae), can be badly affected by injury from its oviposition branches. Several applications broad-spectrum insecticides, such as pyrethroids, needed to mitigate this injury, but incite secondary pest outbreaks i...

It is known that animal-origin medicine could be one of effective treatment to remedy atopic dermatitis (AD) by controlling the cytokines. Cicadidae periostracum (CP), slough Cryptotympana pustulata, has been frequently used for treating AD and skin affliction in traditional Korean Medicine. This study aimed at investigating ameliorating effects CP on its potential mechanism. The dinitrochlorob...

This study documents the traces and burrowing behaviors of nymphs of the prairie cicada Cicadetta calliope (Hemiptera: Cicadidae), as observed in neoichnological experiments. Cicada nymphs were collected from the C horizons of sandy Fluvents along the Kansas River east of Lawrence, Kansas. The nymphs appeared to be fifth instars, 13–17 mm long and 6–7 mm wide. Nymphs were placed in plastic encl...

Tibicinoides, with three small endemic California cicada species, has a confusing, intertwined systematic history Okanagana that we unravel here. An ingroup including all species of Tibicinoides and the majority (84.7%) were sampled for six gene regions, polarized Clidophleps, Okanagodes, Subpsaltria, Tibicina outgroups, subjected to Bayesian phylogenetic analysis. Although was monophyletic fro...

Males of the cicada Okanagana rimosa (Homoptera: Cicadidae) that produce calling songs are parasitised by the parasitoid fly Emblemasoma auditrix (Diptera: Sarcophagidae). An ethogram of the infection behavior was extracted from videotaped experiments with tethered hosts. The infection behavior can be divided into three phases, each involving different sensory cues: long-range host detection vi...