Cicada
Cicada noun - Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings; male has drum-like organs for producing a high-pitched drone.
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The second group, which were mainly toy-only, had Barrage as the rhino beetle and Chop Shop as the stag; along with Venom the cicada and Ransack the locust.
Source: Japanese Beetle Brothers - Even though everyone calls arthropods "bugs", the Hemiptera (true bugs) are largely ignored, unless you see a cicada that's not being treated as a locust.
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Locust and Cicada. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 01, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/cicada/locust
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