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Photo#395315
Clicker - Platypedia

Clicker - Platypedia
Cupertino, CA, Santa Clara County, California, USA
May 13, 2010
This insect made a loud clicking noise when it moved it's wings.

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Moved from Platypedia.

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Moved from Cicadas.

Platypedia group
Wing Banger ;)

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Moved from ID Request. If possible, could you crop this image so that the cicada fills the frame?

A Cicada of some kind
In the Guide here.

I'll leave it to the experts to tell you exactly what kind of cicada you have.

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Cicada :-)
This is likely in the genus Platypedia or something very closely related. Nice observation, too: these are "wing-bangers" because males lack the tympanum organ that most cicadas use to make those ear-splitting "songs." Also, these are the earliest-emerging cicadas in the western U.S., so can't easily be confused with Okanagana, the common genus of summer cicadas there.

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