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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) » pruinosus group (Scissor Grinders) (Neotibicen pruinosus group (Scissor Grinders)) » Scissor(s) Grinder (Neotibicen pruinosus)
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T. pruinosus - Neotibicen pruinosus - female
Copyright © 2009 Blair Scott

T. pruinosus - Neotibicen pruinosus - Female
Huntsville/Chase Valley, Madison County, Alabama, USA
August 28, 2009

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Contributed by Blair Scott on 16 September, 2009 - 12:01pm
Last updated 22 September, 2009 - 4:26pm

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Moved from Tibicen.
… Blair Scott, 21 September, 2009 - 5:43pm login or register to post comments

Tibicen pruinosus (FEMALE)
T. canicularis has not been recorded from the Tennessee Valley of n. Alabama. Earlier records of T. canicularis in the southeast were erroneously based on the calls of T. davisi, T. davisi harnedi and T. auriferus - as the calls of these taxa are very similar to that of T. canicularis.

As mentioned with regards to the shells, members of the T. pruinosus/winnemana group are by far the most abundant Tibicen species in that region and this individual is very typical of T. pruinosus in Madison Co., AL.

Note the well developed paired pruinose spots at the base of the abdomen - among the "Green Tibicen species" (those with green pronotal collars), this trait is best exemplified/diagnostic of pruinosus. Although several other related species have the paired pruinose spots, these spots reach their greatest development in pruinosus (part. in comparison with females).
… Bill Reynolds, 16 September, 2009 - 2:30pm login or register to post comments

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