Oil cicada

Weight

Not recorded

Length

Not recorded

Lifespan

Not recorded

Main food

Not recorded

Habitat

Not recorded

Young per litter or clutch

Not recorded

Conservation status

Not recorded

Countries on record

6 countriessrc for Countries on record

The oil cicada is listed for 6 countries.

The same countries as a list

1. Japan
2. Papua New Guinea
3. Slovakia
4. South Korea
5. Taiwan
6. United Kingdom

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

1. kingdomAnimalia
2. phylumArthropoda
3. classInsecta
4. orderHemiptera
5. familyCicadidae
6. genusGraptopsaltria
7. SpeciesGraptopsaltria nigrofuscata (Motschulsky, 1866)

Synonyms Cryptotympana nigrofuscata, Fidicina nigrofasciata, Fidicina nigrofuscata, Goaptopsaltria nigsofuscata, Graptopsaltria colorata, Graptopsaltria colorata colorata, Graptopsaltria colorata var. badius, Graptopsaltria corolata, Graptopsaltria corotata, Graptopsaltria migrofuscata, Graptopsaltria nigrofuscata badia, Graptopsaltria nigrofuscata nigrofuscata, Graptopsaltria nigrofuscata var. testaceomaculata, Graptopsaltria nigrofuscata var. tsuchidai, Graptopsaltria nigrofusecata, Platypleura nigrofuscata

Catalogue of Life

CompareOil cicada vs Graptopsaltria bimaculataOil cicada vs Graptopsaltria inabaOil cicada vs Graptopsaltria tienta

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• Catalogue of Life eXtended Release · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-10-16 XR
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• Wikimedia Commons · per file (CC0 / public domain / CC BY green, CC BY-SA amber, anything else not displayed) · 2026-11-11
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• EltonTraits 1.0: species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals · CC0 1.0 · 1.0
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@misc{oil_cicada_2026,
  title = {Oil cicada (Graptopsaltria nigrofuscata)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/oil-cicada},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}