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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » Free-living Hemipterans (Auchenorrhyncha) » Cicadoidea » Cicadas (Cicadidae) » Cicadinae » Tibicen » Southern Dog Day Cicada (Tibicen davisi)
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Tibicen figurata - Tibicen davisi
Copyright © 2007 Rick Shackleton

Tibicen figurata - Tibicen davisi
Naples, Collier County, Florida, USA
October 17, 2007
Size: Body 3cm, incl. wings 4cm
I believe this is either Tibicen lyricen, or lyrical cicada. I also wonder if this larvae or grub exiting is a parasite or the cicada. I thought it was dead just hanging on our screen enclosure. When I removed it and started taking more pictures its legs wiggled and out crawled this larvae. It moved very fast, head down until reaching a potted plant I placed under the table edge. It quickly buried it's self. Within two hours the cicada was dry, brown, crunchy.

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Contributed by Rick Shackleton on 17 October, 2007 - 8:03pm
Last updated 20 March, 2009 - 3:51pm

Moved
Moved from Tibicen figuratus.
… John R. Maxwell, 20 March, 2009 - 3:51pm login or register to post comments

Tibicen davisi
3 cm = slightly more than 1 inch
To qualify as a T. figuratus, I'd be more satisfied with > 6 cm.

Additionally, the green pigments are not typical of T. figuratus (teneral or sclerotized).

All of the above, coupled with the seemingly disproportiantely larger head, leads me to believe this to be a T. davisi.
… Bill Reynolds, 20 March, 2009 - 3:45pm login or register to post comments

Tibicen davisi (?)
3 cm = slightly more than 1 inch
To qualify as a T. figuratus, I'd be more satisfied with > 6 cm.

Additionally, the green pigments are not typical of T. figuratus (teneral or sclerotized).

All of the above, coupled with the seemingly disproportiantely larger head, leads me to believe this to be a T. davisi.
… Bill Reynolds, 28 October, 2008 - 11:26am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Tibicen figurata.
… Will Chatfield-Taylor, 25 November, 2007 - 11:39am login or register to post comments

Can you rear the larva?
It must surely have pupated. Dig it up, photograph it, and put it in a sealed jar with a little moist dirt and check daily. It would be interesting to see what it looks like in adult form.
… Jim McClarin, 18 October, 2007 - 5:57pm login or register to post comments

 
Adult form of the pupaited larvae.
Well I didn't have much luck. Maybe I didn't keep it moist enough. I will add one more picture. I guess we'll never know for sure.
… Rick Shackleton, 3 November, 2007 - 10:11am login or register to post comments

 
Thank you all
Thank you all for your help. I have dug it up and will take some photos. I've never done this before so pardon my questions. Other than some dirt, is there anything else I should also include in the jar? I will follow it up here and include the photos. Thank you again.
… Rick Shackleton, 18 October, 2007 - 7:31pm login or register to post comments

 
No,
the dirt is just to keep it from drying out.
… Jim McClarin, 18 October, 2007 - 7:45pm login or register to post comments

how strange!
it must be some kind of parasite that is eating the cicada...
… Vespula vulgaris, 17 October, 2007 - 8:39pm login or register to post comments

 
Agreed.
My bets would be on a tachinid fly, or a Sandalus beetle, in that order. The behavior of the emerging larva suggests a fly maggot, but I don't know the life cycle of Sandalus.
… Eric R. Eaton, 18 October, 2007 - 4:04pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you
Thank you for your help. I'll update when I know have more info.
… Rick Shackleton, 18 October, 2007 - 8:19pm login or register to post comments

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