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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 » Platypedia putnami
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Putnam's Cicada, adult dorsal - Platypedia putnami
Copyright © 2012 Edward L. Ruden

Putnam's Cicada, adult dorsal - Platypedia putnami
Sandia Mountains, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, USA
May 23, 2001
Size: 17.5 mm body length
Download high resolution image here.

I collected this specimen on Canoncito Trl (150), Sandia Mountains in a conifer forest at an altitude of 8000 feet, Sandia Crest 7.5’ quadrangle, Bernalillo Co, NM. The ovipositor seen in the ventral view identifies it as female.

I've posted images of five individuals, including this one. Respectively, they are of a live adult, pinned adult, pinned and spread adult female, live nymph, and live adult eclosing from a nymph:



See first image above for details.

This image is derived from a stack of 50 images with a 0.34 mm step taken with a macro lens at F/5.6, and processed with CombineZP software.

Images of this individual: tag all
Putnam's Cicada, adult dorsal - Platypedia putnami Putnam's Cicada, adult lateral - Platypedia putnami Putnam's Cicada, adult ventral - Platypedia putnami Putnam's Cicada, adult anterior - Platypedia putnami
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Contributed by Edward L. Ruden on 29 December, 2012 - 5:57pm

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