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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) » pruinosus group (Scissor Grinders) (Neotibicen pruinosus group (Scissor Grinders)) » Scissor(s) Grinder (Neotibicen pruinosus)
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Tibicen pruinosus - Neotibicen pruinosus - male
Copyright © 2007 J.R. Jones

Tibicen pruinosus - Neotibicen pruinosus - Male
Knoxville, University of Tennessee Campus, Knox County, Tennessee, USA
September 7, 2007
Size: Total length: 53.3 mm
Shot of terminal abdominal segments for sexing. It looks ovipositorish to me, but as I said, I still haven't gotten the hang of sexing these.

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Contributed by J.R. Jones on 7 September, 2007 - 6:01pm
Last updated 13 January, 2010 - 4:12pm

Moved
Moved from Linne's cicada.
… John R. Maxwell, 1 April, 2009 - 9:38pm login or register to post comments

Tibicen pruinosus (nr. winnemana?)
The opercula are yellow-ochreous and oblique - those in T. linnei are elongated and darker in color .. those in T. robinsonianus are short, darker tan and more evenly rounded.

Ventral view of MALE T. pruinosus


Ventral view of MALE T. robinsonianus


Ventral view of MALE T. linnei
… Bill Reynolds, 20 March, 2009 - 3:29pm login or register to post comments

Tibicen pruinosus
Typical example of T. pruinosus from much of the upper mid-south west of the Appalachians.
… Bill Reynolds, 3 March, 2009 - 4:13pm login or register to post comments

 
Yes i agree that this is a ty
Yes i agree that this is a typical pruinosus. Opercula can be longer in some of them
… slikk03, 15 July, 2012 - 9:12am login or register to post comments

male
The opercula (the large, brown plates just behind the hind leg bases) are much larger in males of Tibicen than in females, and the male genitalic capsule is shorter than the female ovipositor (which extends down into the last two segments of the abdomen).
… Andy Hamilton, 11 September, 2007 - 11:47am login or register to post comments

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