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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Hoppers (Auchenorrhyncha) » Cicadas, Spittlebugs, Leafhoppers, and Treehoppers (Cicadomorpha) » Cicadas (Cicadoidea) » Cicadas (Cicadidae) » Cicadinae » Fidicini » Scrub Cicadas (Diceroprocta) » Salt Marsh Cicada (Diceroprocta viridifascia)
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Diceroprocta viridifascia (MALES) - Diceroprocta viridifascia - male
Copyright © 2009 bill reynolds

Diceroprocta viridifascia (MALES) - Diceroprocta viridifascia - Male
Florida, USA
Diceroprocta viridifascia (MALES)
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MALE: Yankee Town, Levy Co., FL - 25 May 2001
MALE: Yankee Town, Levy Co., FL - 14 June 1999
coll. R. Veal

Coastal Scrub or Salt Marsh Cicada.
These cicadas are common along the FL Atlantic Coast, Keys and parts of the FL Gulf coast (less abundant along the Panhandle). These cicadas are rare more than a few miles from the beach/coast and absent from much of the Florida interior. Florida Populations, especially along the Gulf coast & "Bigbend" region, often lack the more contrasting pronotal collar indicative of this species and most characterized by pop's along the mid-Atlantic coast.

The call is a prolonged ...Zit...Zit..Zit..Zit..Zit...
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Contributed by Bill Reynolds on 6 April, 2009 - 3:45pm
Last updated 28 May, 2014 - 11:02am

Diceroprocta viridifascia from the Gulf coast of FL
Some slight dfferences have been noted.
… Bill Reynolds, 28 May, 2014 - 11:02am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Salt Marsh Cicada.
Perhaps these specimens belong to the w. FL form described as similar or nr. var. bequaerti (?)
… Bill Reynolds, 25 September, 2012 - 2:52pm login or register to post comments

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