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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) » Tibicininae » Platypediini » Platypedia
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Small black cicada with red-orange markings - Platypedia
Copyright © 2012 Jerry Friedman

Small black cicada with red-orange markings - Platypedia
Orilla Verde Recreation Area, Taos County, New Mexico, USA
June 7, 2012
Size: 25-30 mm?
This one was silent (and very cooperative), but I'll swear this was the same species I saw clicking in bushes and low branches of trees, with a wing flick for each click or tick. They're all over the place in juniper scrub and riparian woods, altitude something like 1800–1900 m.

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Contributed by Jerry Friedman on 7 June, 2012 - 11:27pm
Last updated 8 June, 2012 - 2:30pm

Moved
Moved from Cicadas.
… v belov, 8 June, 2012 - 2:30pm login or register to post comments

Platypedia
sorry, don't know the southern species
… Andy Hamilton, 8 June, 2012 - 1:42pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks to both.
I see from your comments here that I could have identified this genus from the parallel sides of the pronotum or from the wing-clicking.
… Jerry Friedman, 8 June, 2012 - 2:51pm login or register to post comments

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