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Photo#426304
Copyright © 2010
Daniel Gene Miller Jr.
Fresh Cicada -
Neotibicen tibicen
Aberdeen, Harford County, Maryland, USA
July 12, 2010
In my screened in porch.
Contributed by
Daniel Gene Miller Jr.
on 14 July, 2010 - 2:01am
Last updated 10 July, 2012 - 12:18pm
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Bill Reynolds
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Tibicen tibicen (chloromerus)
After seeing many hundreds of these through the years in the teneral form, I am quite confident this is the common swamp cicada.
This species is found along the east coast (much of the eastern USA) and can be very abundant in Maryland. The characteristic bright green eyes are also diagnostic and green eyes to this degree are not seen in other Tibicen species occurring in Maryland. Final note, this is the only medium sized Tibicen I have observed to have a very dark brown wing base in the nymph and cast (just as seen on the shell here). Other Tibicen species of similar size have more uniformly colored molts and the wing base is not so dark (T. linnei, winnemana, canicularis, and lyricen often have similarly sized molts, but lack the dark wing pad base).
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Bill Reynolds
, 3 September, 2010 - 12:53pm
Thank you,
very interesting and good info!
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Daniel Gene Miller Jr.
, 3 September, 2010 - 2:13pm
Tibicen
the brown, hump-backed nymph is characteristic of this genus
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