Evening cicada
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Higurashi cicadas can call together in a chorus that sounds like a musical round.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Evening cicada
- Scientific name
- Tanna japonensis
- Japanese name
- ヒグラシ
- Group
- Insects
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Hemiptera
- Family
- Cicadidae
- Genus
- Tanna
A medium-sized cicada that lives on tree trunks in dim, shady woods.
Its brown body has green and black markings. Singing males have a well-developed sound chamber, so their abdomen is long.
It seldom sings in the heat of the day, and calls 'kana-kana' in the cool of morning and evening.
How the Evening cicada lives
Adults appear during the rainy season and can be seen into early autumn. It inserts its straw-like mouthpart into trees or grasses and sucks their sap. Even at midday in midsummer, it may call when thick clouds make it dark.
三鷹市Basic data
- Size
- Body length: males about 28–38 mm, females about 21–25 mm
- Diet
- Sap of trees and grasses
Where the Evening cicada has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 目黒区 — 目黒に住む昆虫（セミ類）Checked: 2026-11-03
- 三鷹市 — みたかいきもの図鑑 ヒグラシChecked: 2026-11-03
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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