Geminate cicada
The geminate cicada is a big cicada from the sunny eastern Mediterranean. Like other cicadas, the males sing loudly in summer. It has two cousins that look almost exactly the same.
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Fun facts
It and two other cicadas look almost the same. The only way to tell them apart is by listening to the males sing.
It lives along the southeast coast of Turkey and has also been seen in Cyprus and on Greek islands.
Cicada babies grow up underground before they climb out and become singing grown-ups.
Most asked questions about Geminate cicada
?How can you tell the geminate cicada from its cousins?
Only by its song. The males of each kind sing differently, but their bodies look almost the same.
?Where does the geminate cicada live?
On the southeast coast of Turkey, in Cyprus and on some Greek islands.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Lyristes gemellus
- Group
- True bugs and cicadas
- Family
- Cicadidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hemiptera > Cicadidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Europe
Where the facts come from
- Lyristes gemellus (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 Sunyulowpedia. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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