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Although members of the Homopteran family Cicadidae are world wide in distribution, only the North American genus Magicicada exhibits a perfectly synchronized life cycle 13 or 17 years long. All but four weeks of this long life cycle is spent underground as nymphs.
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Simon, C. (1983). A New Coding Procedure for Morphometric Data with an Example from Periodical Cicada Wing Veins. In: Felsenstein, J. (eds) Numerical Taxonomy. NATO ASI Series, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69024-2_40
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