A new species of cicada, Semia gialaiensis, is described from Kon Ka Kinh National Park in central Vietnam. Photos of the adult, illustrations of the male genitalia, a distribution map and biological data are provided. A key to the species of Semia based on the male adults is also given.

BACKGROUND Sound collections for singing insects provide important repositories that underpin existing research (e.g. Price et al. 2007 at http://bio.acousti.ca/node/11801; Price et al. 2010) and make bioacoustic collections available for future work, including insect communication (Ordish 1992), systematics (e.g. David et al. 2003), and automated identification (Bennett et al. 2015). The BioAc...

The genus Magicicada (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) includes the periodical cicadas of Eastern North America. Spending majority their long lives underground, adult emerge every 13 or 17 years to spend 4-6 weeks as mate. We present whole genome sequences two species 17-year cicadas, Magicicada septendecim and septendecula. The reads w...