Pharaoh 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

1 countrysrc for Countries on record

The pharaoh cicada is listed for 1 country.

The same countries as a list

1. Georgia

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. genusMagicicada
7. SpeciesMagicicada septendecim (Linnaeus, 1758)

Synonyms Cicada costalis, Cicada sepetendecim, Cicada septedecim, Cicada septemdecem, Cicada septemdecim, Cicada septemdecims, Cicada septendecem, Cicada septendecim, Cicada septendicem, Magicicada decim, Magicicada sependecim, Magicicada sependesim, Magicicada sepiendecim, Magicicada septednecim, Magicicada septemdecima, Magicicada septemdicim, Magicicada septendcim, Magicicada septendecim, Magicicada septendecimthe, Magicicada septendecin, Magicicada septendecium, Magicicada septendedim, Magicicada septidecim, Magicicada septimdecim, Magicicada septindecim, Megacicada septemdecim, Tettigonia costalis, Tettigonia septemdecim, Tettigonia septendecem, Tettigonia septendecim, Tettigonia septendedecim, Tibicen septemdecem, Tibicen septemdecim, Tibicen septendecim, Tibicena septendecim, Tibicina septemdecim, Tibicina septendceim, Tibicina septendecim

Catalogue of Life

ComparePharaoh cicada vs Cassin's 17-year cicadaPharaoh cicada vs Decula 17-year cicadaPharaoh cicada vs 13-year cicadaPharaoh cicada vs Decim 13-year cicada

• An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles · CC0 1.0 · E096-269
  Myhrvold, N.P., Baldridge, E., Chan, B., Sivam, D., Freeman, D.L. & Ernest, S.K.M. (2015) An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96: 3109. https://doi.org/10.1890/15-0846R.1. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3563457.v1
• AmphiBIO, a global database for amphibian ecological traits · CC BY 4.0 · v1
  Oliveira, B.F., São-Pedro, V.A., Santos-Barrera, G., Penone, C. & Costa, G.C. (2017) AmphiBIO, a global database for amphibian ecological traits. Scientific Data 4: 170123. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.123. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.4644424.v5
• AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds · CC BY 4.0 · v7
  Tobias, J.A. et al. (2022) AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds. Ecology Letters 25: 581–597. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13898. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.16586228.v7
• Catalogue of Life eXtended Release · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-10-16 XR
  Catalogue of Life (2026). Catalogue of Life eXtended Release, version 2026-10-16 XR. Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgzlf
• Wikimedia Commons · per file (CC0 / public domain / CC BY green, CC BY-SA amber, anything else not displayed) · 2026-11-11
  Wikimedia Commons contributors. Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org (each file credited to its author under its own licence).
• EltonTraits 1.0: species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals · CC0 1.0 · 1.0
  Wilman, H., Belmaker, J., Simpson, J., de la Rosa, C., Rivadeneira, M.M. & Jetz, W. (2014) EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95: 2027. https://doi.org/10.1890/13-1917.1. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3559887.v1
• Wikidata · CC0 1.0 · 2026-11-11
  Wikidata contributors. Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org (data retrieved via the Wikidata Query Service).
• Wikipedia (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 2026-11-11
  Wikipedia contributors. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. https://en.wikipedia.org (text under CC BY-SA 4.0; each block names its article and revision).

@misc{pharaoh_cicada_2026,
  title = {Pharaoh cicada (Magicicada septendecim)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/pharaoh-cicada},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}