Elongate Cicada
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Male elongate cicadas have longer abdomens, making them look bigger.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Elongate Cicada
- Scientific name
- Meimuna opalifera
- Japanese name
- ツクツクボウシ
- Group
- Insects
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Hemiptera
- Family
- Cicadidae
- Genus
- Meimuna
A cicada that favors places with many trees. It becomes more common toward the end of summer and is said to announce the coming of autumn.
It has a slender, blackish body and clear wings. When it rests on a tree it blends in and can be hard to spot.
It calls 'tsuku-tsuku-boshi'. It tends to sing solo, and another one nearby just makes a low 'jee' sound.
How the Elongate Cicada lives
The young spend a long time underground. Males vibrate a membrane to make loud sounds to meet females. As adults, males and females meet and mate, and eggs are laid.
三鷹市Basic data
- Size
- Total length: about 30 mm三鷹市
- Range
- Hokkaido to Kyushu国土交通省 大隅河川国道事務所
Where the Elongate 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
- 三鷹市 — みたかいきもの図鑑 ツクツクボウシChecked: 2026-11-03
- 国土交通省 大隅河川国道事務所 — 肝属川の生き物 ツクツクボウシChecked: 2026-11-04
- 守山市 — 美崎公園とその周辺の自然（セミのなかま）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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