Cicadas are usually green with red and black markings.
They are an inch or more in length and have 2 pair of wings. Range Mojave, Great Basin, Chihuahuan and Sonoran deserts throughout the southwest. Habitat Desert, grasslands and woodlands up to 5,000 feet. Description Cicadas are of the Family Cicadidae , Order Homoptera . They represent the genera Magicicada and Tibicen .