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ID Please - Neotibicen davisi
Copyright © 2007 Rick Shackleton

ID Please - Neotibicen davisi
Naples, Collier County, Florida, USA
October 17, 2007
Size: Body 3cm, incl. wings 4cm
I thought it was dead just hanging on our screen enclosure. When I removed it and started taking more pictures its legs wiggled and out crawled this larvae. It moved very fast, head down until reaching a potted plant I placed under the table edge. It quickly buried it's self. Within two hours the cicada was dry, brown, crunchy.

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Contributed by Rick Shackleton on 17 October, 2007 - 8:06pm
Last updated 2 January, 2013 - 2:41pm

Moved
Moved from Davis' Southeastern Dog-Day Cicada.
… Bill Reynolds, 2 January, 2013 - 2:41pm

Moved
Moved from Tibicen figuratus.
… John R. Maxwell, 20 March, 2009 - 3:51pm

Tibicen davisi
3 cm = slightly more than 1 inch
To qualify as a T. figuratus, I'd be more satisfied with > 6 cm.

Additionally, the green pigments are not typical of T. figuratus (teneral or sclerotized).

All of the above, coupled with the seemingly disproportiantely larger head, leads me to believe this to be a T. davisi.
… Bill Reynolds, 20 March, 2009 - 3:45pm

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