Looking for in depth books or a single book on Cicadas in North America, preferably eastern, but I’ll accept the full continent, too. Something similar to Arthur V. Evans’ Beetles of Eastern North America – which is also a very helpful book.
Sorry, I don’t know of a book. I wish iNat would make a wiki listing field books and naturalist guides.
The BugGuide info pages are somewhat helpful, although a bit outdated: https://bugguide.net/node/view/101 (click the Browse tab to move to finer taxonomy)
CicadaMania is also decent as mentioned above.
This website has lots of information for Canada and the northern US (also a bit outdated): https://www.agr.gc.ca/eng/scientific-collaboration-and-research-in-agriculture/agriculture-and-agri-food-research-centres-and-collections/canadian-national-collection-of-insects-arachnids-and-nematodes-cnc/archived-content-cicada/archived-content-cicada-28-of-46/?id=1229361391916
Songs for northeastern North America: http://songsofinsects.com/cicadas
also for eastern: http://www.insectsingers.com/100th_meridian_cicadas/index.html
and for western: http://www.insectsingers.com/100th_meridian_cicadas/western_species.html
For periodical cicadas: http://magicicada.org/magicicada/
This page lists a whole bunch of books but I haven’t looked more into any of them: https://www.magicicada.net/recommended-reading
Here’s a key for Michigan (unfortunately the images are broken): http://insects.ummz.lsa.umich.edu/fauna/Michigan_Cicadas/Michigan/key.html
For parts of North Carolina: http://tarheelcicadas.blogspot.com/
(I’ve been working on a journal guide for Ontario so I’ve been collecting these recently)
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It depends on whether you mean an identification “guide”, but the monograph of every NA cicada is
Sanborn and Heath’s 2017
The Cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae) of North America North of Mexico 2nd Edition. Entomological Society of America
However this is a resource mainly for entomologists studying cicadas and just has photographs of the type specimens with no identification criteria (and you won’t get a copy for less than 200$)
Bugguide’s info pages are about as good as you’re going to get for identification purposes, especially the Neotibicen and Megatibicen pages written by Bill Reynolds. Okanagana are a work in progress because the person doing them (me) is too lazy to finish.
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If you want REALLY in-depth I suggest going here:
http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/walker/buzz/c700home.htm
This has links to most of the primary literature and descriptions of all NA cicadas. I use these papers in my research to identify specimens all the time. Some of the really old stuff isn’t there but most of those species were described in a few sentences.
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