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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) » Tibicininae » Platypediini » Platypedia » Undetermined Platypedia "Molts, Nymphs, Tenerals & Emergence Series" (Platypedia Undetermined Platypedia "Molts, Nymphs, Tenerals & Emergence Series")
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unknown CA bug emerges from larvae - Platypedia
Copyright © 2010 PeteHoban

unknown CA bug emerges from larvae - Platypedia
Menlo Park, San Mateo County, California, USA
March 7, 2010
Size: 2 cm body
Bug emerging from larvae that was found on a prickly pear cactus. I suspect based on its final form that it was a cicada, but I didn't know cicada were in California. It was also about half the size of any cicada that I've seen on the east coast. Plus, I've never heard cicadas in the trees around here.

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Contributed by PeteHoban on 8 March, 2010 - 12:32pm
Last updated 9 August, 2012 - 10:26am

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… Bill Reynolds, 9 August, 2012 - 10:27am login or register to post comments

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… Bill Reynolds, 30 July, 2010 - 1:09pm login or register to post comments

NICE emergence series!
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… Bill Reynolds, 16 March, 2010 - 9:29am login or register to post comments

Definitely a cicada of some variety.
Looks a bit like this one:



But that might be just because it's newly emerged. Wait to see what the experts have to say.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 8 March, 2010 - 12:47pm login or register to post comments

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