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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 » Megatibicen » Walker's Cicada (Megatibicen pronotalis) » Walker's Annual Cicada ("Northern-Western race" = "ssp. pronotalis") (Megatibicen pronotalis Walker's Annual Cicada ("Northern-Western race" = "ssp. pronotalis"))
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cicada-3 - Megatibicen pronotalis
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cicada-3 - Megatibicen pronotalis
Overland Park, Johnson County, Kansas, USA
August 17, 2008
Tibicen pronotalis
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Contributed by Andrew Williams on 9 April, 2009 - 2:14pm
Last updated 22 October, 2013 - 3:33pm

Moved
Moved from Walker's Cicada.
… Bill Reynolds, 22 October, 2013 - 3:33pm login or register to post comments

Tibicen pronotalis
Yes, spectacular, aren't they?
… Andy Hamilton, 14 April, 2009 - 8:37am login or register to post comments

 
T. pronotalis = T.walkeri = T.marginalis ?
After digging around BugGuide, and the internet, it appears that these three latin names all refer to the same cicada (T. pronotalis = T.walkeri = T.marginalis) Is that correct?

I also ran across an old post here where T.walkeri was referred to as the Great Harvestfly. Would that mean that T.pronotalis would then be called Great Harvestfly as well?

Any help in sorting out this confusion is much appreciated. :)
… Andrew Williams, 23 April, 2009 - 3:42pm login or register to post comments

 
agreed
Yes, these are neat cicadas. They seem to vary in color a bit. I have a spot where I find lots of them along with Tibicen dorsatus. Generally pronotalis on small trees and dorsatus in the surrounding grass and brush. Least that's how I remember it.
… Andrew Williams, 14 April, 2009 - 11:27am login or register to post comments

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