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 shale barrens surrounded by mixed pine-hardwood forest, M. tredecassini seemed to be the most abundant species with dense choruses concentrated in particular trees. A dispersed chorus of M. tredecim was present, and occasional M. tredecula were singing.

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