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Walker's Cicada (Tibicen pronotalis ) - Megatibicen pronotalis

Walker's Cicada (Tibicen pronotalis ) - Megatibicen pronotalis
Utica, Daviess County, Kentucky, USA
September 6, 2010
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Moved

Moved
Moved from ID Request.

This cicada looks dead ??
The discoloration & marbling in the wing veins, pronotum and eyes (+ missing antennae ??) = typical characteristics of dead cicadas.

Was this cicada posed?

likely transitional between eastern/southern and western/northern types.

 
The cicada was very much aliv
The cicada was very much alive and not posed, it did fly off when I tapped it after the picture. In any sexually reproducing organism, from one end of the extreme to the other, there is a significat amount of variation in charactericts.

Tibicen Species.
It reminds me a little of Tibicen pronotalis; however, the thorax coloration seems a little more drab than what I am used to seeing in your location.

Let's let Mr. Bill Reynolds weigh in on this.

 
I agree, pronotalis
I agree, pronotalis

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