Species Tibicen pronotalis

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · See Also

Tibicen pronotalis walkeri - Tibicen pronotalis - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)

Suborder Auchenorrhyncha (Free-living Hemipterans)

Superfamily Cicadoidea

Family Cicadidae (Cicadas)

Subfamily Cicadinae

Genus Tibicen

Species pronotalis (Tibicen pronotalis)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Tibicen walkeri is a junior synonym. The T. walkeri page has been deleted and all the images moved here per advice from Dr Hamilton.

Identification

T. pronotalis vs. T. dealbatus from Comment on this image by Bill Reynolds

Distinquishing traits of T. dealbatus are as follows:

1) Greater pruinosity (white powdered wax) usually arranged in "dotted stripes" along the sides of the abdomen and dorsal abdominal midline.

2) Greater amounts of pruinosity on the thorax (mesonotum)

3) T. dealbatus is usually a bit more compact and has a narrower head by comparison

4) Regarding color, when T. dealbatus is green, it is typically a duller "pea green" - when tan, it is typically more of a sandy-brownish tan as opposed to a yellowish-green/tan seen in pronotalis.

See Also

T. dealbatus

Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 6 February, 2006 - 2:28pm
Additional contributions by john and jane balaban, Ron M.
Last updated 3 September, 2009 - 5:04pm

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