Cretan cicada
The Cretan cicada is a big cicada that lives only on the Greek island of Crete. It looks almost exactly like two of its cousins, so even experts find it hard to tell them apart just by looking. Like other cicadas, the males make a loud buzzing song in summer.
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Fun facts
It lives only on Crete and nowhere else in the world.
Measured from its head to the tips of its folded wings, it is about 4 to 4.7 centimetres long.
Males and females are about the same size.
It is a little bigger than one of its lookalike cousins, called Cicada orni.
Most asked questions about Cretan cicada
?Where does the Cretan cicada live?
Only on the island of Crete in Greece.
?How big is the Cretan cicada?
From its head to its wing tips it is about 40 to 47 millimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Cicada cretensis
- Group
- True bugs and cicadas
- Family
- Cicadidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hemiptera > Cicadidae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Cicada cretensis (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by AfroBrazilian. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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