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Cicada (disambiguation)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ4505572 ↗
Source-derived summary

Cicada is a superfamily of insects, as well as a genus within that group; Cicada (genus).

Cicada may also refer to:

Music

Cicada (British band), English electronic music group

Cicada (Cicada album), the 2006 debut album by Cicada, and its track "Cicadas"

Cicada (Japanese band), a Japanese trip-hop band

Cicada (Hazmat Modine album), a 2011 album by Hazmat Modine, and its title track

"Cicada", a song by Silverchair from Frogstomp, 1995

"Cicada", a song by La Luz from Floating Features, 2018

"Cicada", a song by Sega Bodega from Romeo, 2021

"The Cicada's Song", a song by Autopilot Off from Make a Sound, 2004

"Cicada", a song by Good Kid from Can We Hang Out Sometime?, 2026

Other uses

Cicada variant, a nickname for the SARS-CoV-2 BA.3.2 Omicron subvariant.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Cicada (disambiguation)” as wikimedia disambiguation page. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006, 2011, 1995, 2018—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Cicada, disambiguation and Wikimedia can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as wikimedia disambiguation page. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4505572. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2006, 2011, 1995 and 2018.

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Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Cicada (disambiguation)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.