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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 » Dogday Cicadas (Neotibicen) » pruinosus group (Scissor Grinders) (Neotibicen pruinosus group (Scissor Grinders)) » Scissor(s) Grinder (Neotibicen pruinosus) » Molts, Nymphs, Tenerals & Emergence Series (Neotibicen pruinosus Molts, Nymphs, Tenerals & Emergence Series)
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2 Tibicen cicadas newly emerged - Neotibicen pruinosus - female
Copyright © 2010 NicktheStick

2 Tibicen cicadas newly emerged - Neotibicen pruinosus - Female
Cabot, Lonoke County, Arkansas, USA
August 3, 2010
Bottom right is T. pruinosa. Top left I am 99% sure is T. lyricen, as I have observed both species' transformation to adult colors and thus recognize their teneral colors. Both individuals are female, and clearly different species.
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Contributed by NicktheStick on 4 August, 2010 - 4:42pm
Last updated 10 July, 2012 - 4:25pm

Moved
Moved from Scissor(s) Grinder.
… Bill Reynolds, 10 July, 2012 - 4:25pm login or register to post comments

Tibicen pruinosus (teneral color variants) - ??
Moved from Tibicen.

Gerry and I both agree these cicadas look like T. pruinosus (the top specimen lacks the dark eyes typical of lyricen)
… Bill Reynolds, 14 October, 2011 - 3:02pm login or register to post comments

Hmmmm...
VERY NICE PIC!

Tenerals can be difficult to id. I still get stumped on occasion, esp. with linnei and winnemana....

Did you keep these until fully formed? The only reason I ask, I'm a bit reluctant to go with lyricen (lyricen typically has very dark/black eyes and more detailed pronotal pattern when teneral - although body coloration in lyricen can vary from pink to bluish based on region and color form - similar to above).

T. pruinosus can also be quite variable when teneral and range in color from pinkish-green to deep bluish-green as seen above (it's the light eyes which are pruinosus looking to me).

These pic's and other pic's listed below each image were all pruinosus and from the same site.

We kept close to 60 specimens from this locality and once developed all were very typical T. pruinosus despite teneral color variations.

T. lyricen
… Bill Reynolds, 6 August, 2010 - 10:54am login or register to post comments

 
Tibicen lyricen?
Just to play devil's advocate. It's been my experience that T. lyricen tenerals while exhibiting different morphological variations, one thing is consistent with all of them. The tenerals always have black eyes that change as the cicada ages. The one in the background doesn't really have black eyes...from what I can see.
… Gerry Bunker, 11 August, 2010 - 11:13pm login or register to post comments

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