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Cicada with white underparts--Cacama? - Cacama valvata

Cicada with white underparts--Cacama? - Cacama valvata
Española, New Mexico, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, USA
June 17, 2010
Size: 2.5 cm body length
When I saw it, it was clinging to a fencepost right next to this male. It had climbed higher by the time I got close enough for a picture, and this is the only one I got before it flew away.

I'm assuming this is a female because the tip of the abdomen is shaped differently from the male's and because it doesn't have those thingamajigs that cover the, uh, tymbals?

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Thanks for the ID and the interesting information.

Cacama valvata
the whitish color is a "bloom" of wax that develops as cicadas mature

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