Are there other examples you're thinking of?
Some other interesting links:
- On bamboo in particular (semelparous and allochronic like cicadas): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo_blossom
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allochronic_speciation
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semelparity_and_iteroparity
- On cicadas and their reproductive periods: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodical_cicadas
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_eel : same pattern, but using 2 and 3 as their primes.