Moved from Tibicen. Thanks Gerry!

I am very familiar with the Montague Plains Wildlife Management area in Central Massachusetts. I have been studying cicadas and cicada killers there for 3 years now. Montague boasts heavy populations of Cicada Killers as I have found leks all over the place. However I have only noted two species of cicadas, Okanagana rimosa and T. canicularis. Its very sandy soil is probably a good key factor.

Okanagana rimosa is an earlier species emerging in late May to early June and are often gone by the second week of July. Cicada killers start to collect cicadas starting the third week of July.

Cicada Killers often abandon their prey at their burrow sites especially when the specimen is found to be parasitized by some other insect.

Due to this specimen's small size and lack of other Tibicen species in the immediate vicinity of the Montague Sand Plains, this specimen keys out to be T. canicularis. Its lack of greens is probably due to the fact that it has been dead for quite a while.

One of the "annual" cicadas to be sure. Moving to genus page.