17-year Brood V stretches from near Lake Erie to the Appalachians in Virginia. While Brood V covers a wide latitudinal range, southern populations are high-elevation, and northern populations are relatively low elevation. This brood includes the species Magicicada cassini, Magicicada septendecim, and Magicicada septendecula. Brood V has a disjunct population on Long Island. Another disjunct of Brood V, containing only M. septendecim, occurs near Jim Thorpe PA.
In the map below, cicada symbols are verified presence records and red crosses are verified absence records in our database as of January 2024. Click on points for details. Gold symbols are from Simon (1988); smaller symbols are records with a lower degree of certainty and black crosses represent records that are considered spurious. Blue symbols are from Marlatt (1923); smaller symbols are records with a lower degree of certainty and question marks represent records that are considered spurious. Symbols are in layered in the order Database, Simon, Marlatt, and symbols in the upper layers may obscure symbols in lower layers. Some absence records in the database are not shown for clarity. Note that the dates shown do not represent dates of adult emergence; rather, they represent dates on which choruses were active. Thus, in any given area, adult emergence may have occurred a week or more earlier than the dates shown on this map. This map may not be reproduced without written permission.