Researchers said the species was “abundant” but “difficult to capture” as it evaded their light traps in the tree canopy.

For the past 17 years, they've been underground, never moving more than 3 feet, sipping tree root sap and excavating tunnels ...

Photo by Qun-Zhen Wu via Wang C-B, Liu Z-J (2025) Researchers on a field expedition in a forest in southeast China ... captured were actually part of a new cicada species, Cochleopsaltria huboliao ...