Brood XIX! This was my first experience seeing a brood of 13-year cicadas, and it was quite a different experience than the 17-year broods I have seen in the past. Cicada choruses were extremely patchy, and most seemed far from the roads. Local densities of cicadas could be quite high, but it was difficult to find accessible populations where you could collect specimens. These locations in Arkansas are on the southwestern edge of the range of brood XIX, and the generally cool, drizzly weather sure didn't help.

At this location, a dirt road going east of 270 with mixed pine-hardwood forest, M. tredecula strangely seemed to be the most abundant species. A chorus of M. tredecim was present further off, and occasional M. tredecassini were singing.

ID as M. tredecula by: narrow orange stripes on ventral abdomen, absence of orange patch behind eye, distinctive song, and small size relative to M. tredecim.