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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) » Davis' Southeastern Dog-Day Cicada (Neotibicen davisi) » Davis' Southeastern Dog-Day Cicada (Neotibicen davisi davisi)
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Tibicen figurata - Neotibicen davisi
Copyright © 2007 Rick Shackleton

Tibicen figurata - 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 18 October, 2007 - 6:19am
Last updated 2 January, 2013 - 2:41pm

Moved
Moved from Davis' Southeastern Dog-Day Cicada.
… Bill Reynolds, 2 January, 2013 - 2:42pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Tibicen figuratus.
… John R. Maxwell, 20 March, 2009 - 3:51pm login or register to post comments

Tibicen davisi
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 login or register to post comments

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, 28 October, 2008 - 11:27am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Tibicen figurata.
… Will Chatfield-Taylor, 25 November, 2007 - 11:39am login or register to post comments

Tibicen figurata
The very dark-marked wing veins are characteristic of this brown southeastern species.
… Andy Hamilton, 23 October, 2007 - 3:32pm login or register to post comments

Cicada
Hi Rick. I've been following your cicada story and pics and find it fascinating. While I can't offer assistance, I ask you to please keep us updated. I'd love to find out exactly what that larvae turns into. Thanks!
… JenniferB, 18 October, 2007 - 12:11pm login or register to post comments

 
failed pupation
I may have kept it too dry... so we keep guessing.
… Rick Shackleton, 3 November, 2007 - 10:35am login or register to post comments

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