Annual cicadas are North American Cicadidae species that appear every summer. The life cycle of a so-called annual cicada typically spans 2 to 5 years; they are "annual" only in the sense that members of the species reappear annually. The name is used to distinguish them from periodical cicada species, which occur only in Eastern

North America North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Car ...

, are developmentally synchronized, and appear in great swarms every 13 or 17 years. All other cicadas from all other biogeographic regions produce annual broods, so the distinction is not made outside of North America. Species called "annual cicada" include members of the genus '' Neotibicen'' ("dog-day cicadas"), ''

Diceroprocta ''Diceroprocta'' is a genus of scrub cicadas in the family Cicadidae. There are at least 60 described species in ''Diceroprocta''. Species These 60 species belong to the genus ''Diceroprocta'': * '' Diceroprocta alacris'' (Stål, 1864) * '' Di ...

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Neocicada ''Neocicada'' is a genus of cicadas in the family Cicadidae, with about five described species. Species These five species are: * '' Neocicada australamexicana'' Sanborn and Sueur in Sanborn, Heath, Sueur and Phillips, 2005 * '' Neocicada centr ...

'',Cicadamania: "Hot weather means cicadas emerge sooner"
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Okanagana ''Okanagana'' is a genus of cicadas in the family Cicadidae Cicadidae, the true cicadas, is the largest family of cicadas, with more than 3,200 species worldwide. The oldest known definitive fossils are from the Paleocene, a nymph from the Cre ...

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