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A 17-year periodical cicada (Magicicada) with transparent wings and orange legs clings to a blade of grass, photographed in North Carolina.
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Periodical cicada
Periodical cicada Magicicada, the genus containing the 13- and 17-year periodical cicadas of eastern North America.

list of homopterans

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Homopterans are any of the more than 32,000 species of sucking insects constituting the order Homoptera. All of the Homoptera are plant feeders, with mouthparts adapted for sucking plant sap. This is an alphabetically ordered list of significant homopterans.

The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica This article was most recently revised and updated by Melissa Petruzzello.