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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 » Western Bush Cicada (Megatibicen tremulus)
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Cicada - Possibly Tibicen tremulus or Tibicen dorsatus - Megatibicen tremulus
Copyright © 2009 Towhee

Cicada - Possibly Tibicen tremulus or Tibicen dorsatus - Megatibicen tremulus
Mo Ranch - north of Hunt Texas, Kerr County, Texas, USA
October 24, 2009
I have been hearing these cicada's calling in the Texas Hill Country. It is an intense continuous rattle (like a very angry rattlesnake) that is steday in volumn and frequency. When I netted this individual, its alarm sound was so intense that it literally hurt my ear drums and when it was released it continued to emit this alarm call even as it flew off and continued for about a minute.

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Cicada - Possibly Tibicen tremulus or Tibicen dorsatus - Megatibicen tremulus Cicada - Possibly Tibicen tremulus or Tibicen dorsatus - Megatibicen tremulus
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Contributed by Towhee on 25 October, 2009 - 10:55pm
Last updated 13 March, 2017 - 10:12am

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… John R. Maxwell, 26 October, 2009 - 4:59pm login or register to post comments

This is Tibicen tremulus, the
This is Tibicen tremulus, the subcosta and costa are the same color. :-)
… Will Chatfield-Taylor, 26 October, 2009 - 4:43pm login or register to post comments

 
I would also like to add..
That the timbal cover color is black as described in Jeffery Cole's paper:
"A New Cryptic Species of Cicada Resembling Tibicen dorsatus
Revealed by Calling Song (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadidae"


In addition, looking at the distribution map for this new species (based on museum specimens and collecting trips by Jeffrey Cole) that you have just increased the range of this new species well into Texas by several hundred miles. I'm sure Jeff would be interested in knowing this.

Gerry
… Gerry Bunker, 15 June, 2010 - 10:04pm login or register to post comments

 
I'll text him today, though h
I'll text him today, though he's kinda slammed with school. It's not in the Mescalero Dunes system so I doubt it's harenosus. Very cool record.
… Will Chatfield-Taylor, 5 March, 2020 - 8:02am login or register to post comments

 
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