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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) » Molts, Nymphs, Tenerals, & Emergence Series (Neotibicen linnei Molts, Nymphs, Tenerals, & Emergence Series)
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Another Tibicen tibicen? - Neotibicen linnei - male
Copyright © 2010 stan gilliam

Another Tibicen tibicen? - Neotibicen linnei - Male
Mars Hill, Madison County, North Carolina, USA
August 7, 2009
Size: typical big cicada
Can this be identified at such an early stage?
It looks a lot like the Tibicen tibicen I posted a few days ago.
How about it, Bill Reynolds?

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Contributed by stan gilliam on 19 November, 2010 - 3:44pm
Last updated 10 July, 2012 - 3:33pm

Moved
Moved from Linne's cicada.
… Bill Reynolds, 10 July, 2012 - 3:33pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Tibicen.
… Bill Reynolds, 14 July, 2011 - 1:46pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Bill Reynolds, 23 November, 2010 - 9:47am login or register to post comments

Tibicen sp. (MALE)
This is definitely not T. tibicen.

Tenerals (newly emerged) can be tough to id and there is some overlap in traits between and among several of our local species - incl. linnei, winnemana, and cicadas we believe to be "hybrids" between the 2.

The overall coloration and somewhat elongated opercula lead me to think this might be linnei. However, given the oblique angles of these pic's, it's difficult to see a few of the characters that would be better revealing - i.e. head width to pronotum ratio, opercula shape, and "straight on" details of the forewings/costal margin shape.

Another possibility is T. davisi. This species is highly variable in color and some davisi tenerals can be very similar in coloration to those of linnei. The darker paired pronotal blotches seen in this teneral are also suggestive of this species.
… Bill Reynolds, 22 November, 2010 - 10:06am login or register to post comments

 
More detail
Thanks for your comments, Bill.
I posted an additional shot of the head and thorax.
Does that help?
… stan gilliam, 22 November, 2010 - 1:46pm login or register to post comments

 
Tibicen linnei (MALE) ..?
The additional images you posted show head to thorax ratios suggesting the width of the two is roughly equivalent (davisi usu. has a wider head). The costal margin also appears bowed (and passes the line bisection test - to which I am not a great fan ;), typical of linnei and not so much in davisi. Since neither of these traits are typical of davisi, I'm more inclined towards linnei.
… Bill Reynolds, 22 November, 2010 - 2:47pm login or register to post comments

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