T. pruinosus - Neotibicen pruinosus

Moved

Moved from Scissor(s) Grinder.

… Bill Reynolds, 10 July, 2012 - 4:27pm

Moved

Moved from Tibicen.

… Blair Scott, 21 September, 2009 - 5:43pm

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Moved from Cicadas.

… Harsi S. Parker, 30 August, 2009 - 9:42pm

Tibicen sp.

I have family in those parts and have collected extensively for many years across much of Alabama; I agree with John Maxwell in this case. The common Dog-day, T. canicularis, is a more northern species and is not known to occur in Alabama. The best documented record(s) for T. canicularis in the South comes from a few isolated specimens collected in the mountains of Virginia.

Most of my personal experience in n. AL includes the following Counties: Lauderdale, Colbert, Fraklin, Limestone, Lawrence, Morgan, Madison, Marion, Cullman, Winston & Walker.

A member of the T. davisi complex (incl. T. davisi harnedi/T. auriferus) does occur across the Tennessee Valley area and the call is very similar to canicularis.

Casts are often difficult to id to species, however, T. tibicen & T. pruinosus are by far the most abundant species in the Tenn. Valley (also in your area are T. linnei, T. robinsonianus, T. lyricen, T. auletes, T. pronotalis, T. similaris, T. figuratus and T. davisi/auriferus complex).

T. tibicen molts typically have a dark area at the base of the wing pad - needless to say this one does not - so we can safely exclude T. tibicen as a likely candidate.

Bill

… Bill Reynolds, 30 August, 2009 - 1:06am

Moved

Moved from Dog-day Cicada. How did you make a species ID from these images?

… John R. Maxwell, 28 August, 2009 - 10:08pm

We haven't seen any other spe

We haven't seen any other species in our yard or the Bradford Pear where these are located except the Dog-Day Cicada.

… Blair Scott, 29 August, 2009 - 4:19am

Images

do you have any images of the adults? Tibicen canicularis is a northeastern species, I'm not sure if they get down there or not.

… John R. Maxwell, 29 August, 2009 - 12:15pm

Yes, I have some pics. I didn

Yes, I have some pics. I didn't post them here since there were already so many of them. Do you want me to add them so you can take a look at them or would you prefer that I email them to you offline?

… Blair Scott, 29 August, 2009 - 2:06pm

OK, added the pictures of the

OK, added the pictures of the adults I have in my yard.

… Blair Scott, 16 September, 2009 - 12:02pm

PLEASE ADD CICADA PIC'S

Any and every image you can provide helps!

Thanks,
Bill Reynolds
Curator & Containment Director of the Arthropod Zoo
NC Museum of Natural Sciences
11 West Jones Street
Raleigh, NC 27601-1029
(919) 733-7450 Ext. 512
bill.reynolds@ncdenr.gov

… Bill Reynolds, 30 August, 2009 - 1:08am

Will do!

I flew to Portland today and my images are on my home PC. I'll get home late on 9/5, so I'll add them on 9/6.

… Blair Scott, 30 August, 2009 - 6:15pm