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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 » Tacuini » Dogday Cicadas (Neotibicen) » Linné's Annual Cicada (Neotibicen linnei)
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Cicada - Neotibicen linnei - female
Copyright © 2006 Mr. Fox

Cicada - Neotibicen linnei - Female
Saint Albans, Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA
February 12, 2006
Size: Body-1&1/16in.w/Wing-13/4
This Cicada is more colorful than other Cicada I have seen here. The body, top and bottom is white with markings of brown and black. The eyes are also brown.

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Cicada - Neotibicen linnei - female Cicada - Neotibicen linnei - female
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Contributed by Mr. Fox on 7 February, 2006 - 7:52pm
Last updated 12 February, 2006 - 7:39pm

Edited title
The species name gets added automatically when an image is moved to the Guide, so I removed the "(Species:Tibicin linnei)". I hope you don't mind.
… Chuck Entz, 9 February, 2006 - 11:54pm login or register to post comments

 
Female
This specimen is definately female as apparent by the lack of opercula and the presence of an ovipositor. Is that mold on this specimen? If it isn't mold but pruinosity, I've never seen so much on a T. linnei before.

Gerry
… Gerry Bunker, 12 February, 2006 - 5:59pm login or register to post comments

 
Cicada
I had not thought about mold but I have a male colored the same way on the bottom of its body,except for two spots on the upper body.
… Mr. Fox, 12 February, 2006 - 7:21pm login or register to post comments

 
Indicative of Tibicens
The white stuff is a waxy build up that develops in Tibicens over time and is indicative of the genus. Other species may have it but it's a definate giveaway for a Tibicen. The two white spots that you see "up top" is also indicative of many Tibicens. (Tibicen chloromera and Tibicen lyricen to name two.)

It's the heavy pruinosity in this specimen that is strange given your dimensions of the specimen which is why I thought it was mold. One of my cicada specimens has got moldy due to improper preservation.

Heavy pruinosity is very indicative of Tibicen auletes as I have a male specimen in my collection that is much as this one appears. But of course my specimen is very big.

Gerry
… Gerry Bunker, 12 February, 2006 - 8:36pm login or register to post comments

Tibicen linnei
The angled front margin of the wings is distinctive.
… Andy Hamilton, 9 February, 2006 - 3:20pm login or register to post comments

 
Moved...
to the Guide page. Thanks for your help!
… Chuck Entz, 9 February, 2006 - 11:48pm login or register to post comments

Tibicen
Probably T. linnei, judging by the size and the prominent angle just before the midlength of the leading edge of the front wing.
… Andy Hamilton, 8 February, 2006 - 8:24am login or register to post comments

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