Cicadas in New Mexico
You can hear the loud buzzing sound of New Mexico cicadas on summer days. They are the mating calls of the males that have noise levels of 80-100 decibels – equivalent to a motorcycle or a lawnmower. The adults emerge from the ground when the temperature of the soil reaches 64oF. Then they mat and die in their short lifespan of a few weeks.
Types of Cicadas in New Mexico
- Aridland Cicada
- Common Cactus Dodger
- Cicadettana kansa
- Scrub Cicada
- Hadoa bifida
- Hadoa chiricahua
- Hadoa duryi
- Hadoa inaudita
- Hadoa neomexicensis
- Hadoa texana
- Hadoa townsendii
- Grand Western Flood Plain Cicada
- Plains Cicada
- Bush Cicada
- Megatibicen harenosus
- Neoplatypedia constricta
- Plains Dog-day Cicada
- Superb Dog-Day Cicada
- Mountain Cicada
- Okanagana fumipennis
- Okanagana gibbera
- Okanagana hesperia
- Okanagana magnifica
- Okanagana mariposa mariposa
- Okanagana occidentalis
- Okanagana schaefferi
- Okanagana striatipes
- Walking Cicada
- Okanagana utahensis
- Little Juniper Cicada
- Platypedia bernardinoensis
- Platypedia mohavensis mohavensis
- Platypedia mohavensis rufescens
- Putnam’s Cicada
