Black and scarlet cicada
The black and scarlet cicada is a small cicada with a bright red body, smoky grey wings and jet black legs. Its colours make it one of the most striking cicadas in Asia. Lots of them come out together in April.
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Fun facts
Its scientific name comes from the Latin word for blood, because of its deep red colour.
These cicadas usually come out all at the same time in April.
It is about 2 centimetres long, which is small for a cicada.
Most asked questions about Black and scarlet cicada
?What colour is the black and scarlet cicada?
Its body is deep scarlet red, its wings are smoky grey and its legs are black.
?Where does the black and scarlet cicada live?
In South and Southeast Asia, from India and China down to Sumatra and Timor.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Huechys sanguinea
- Group
- True bugs and cicadas
- Family
- Cicadidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hemiptera > Cicadidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Huechys sanguinea (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 ๅญซ้ ๆ. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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