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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) » Cicadettinae » Cicadettini » Small Grass Cicadas (Cicadettana) » Cicadettana calliope
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Cicadidae, dorsal - Cicadettana calliope - female
Copyright © 2014 MJ Hatfield

Cicadidae, dorsal - Cicadettana calliope - Female
John's Prairie, Allamakee County, Iowa, USA
July 21, 2014
Size: 15 mm body, 20+ inc wings
swept on a hill prairie remnant

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Cicadidae, dorsal - Cicadettana calliope - female Cicadidae, dorsalX - Cicadettana calliope - female Cicadidae, lateral - Cicadettana calliope - female Cicadidae, frontal - Cicadettana calliope - female Cicadidae, ventralX - Cicadettana calliope - female
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Contributed by MJ Hatfield on 13 November, 2014 - 10:48am
Last updated 30 July, 2020 - 8:26pm

Moved
Moved from Cicadettana calliope.
… Will Chatfield-Taylor, 30 July, 2020 - 8:26pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Cicadetta calliope.
… Will Chatfield-Taylor, 30 July, 2020 - 8:00pm login or register to post comments

Cicadetta calliope
Excellent series of pic's
… Bill Reynolds, 13 November, 2014 - 1:35pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you.
Is this a female or male?
… MJ Hatfield, 13 November, 2014 - 2:44pm login or register to post comments

 
Female
Males have a more tubular or rounded tail end while that of the female is more sharply pointed. Male cicadas in this group (Subfamily: Cicadettinae) have small opercula and open tymbals

Compare with the related Magicicadas pictured

Male


female
… Bill Reynolds, 13 November, 2014 - 3:38pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you again.
I thought what I was looking at was an ovipositor but then thought again as I've never actually looked before.
… MJ Hatfield, 13 November, 2014 - 4:01pm login or register to post comments

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