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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Hoppers (Auchenorrhyncha) » Cicadomorpha » Cicadas (Cicadoidea) » Cicadas (Cicadidae) » Cicadinae » Annual or Dogday Cicadas (Neotibicen) » Swamp Cicada (Neotibicen tibicen) » Molts, Nymphs, Tenerals & Emergence Series (Neotibicen tibicen Molts, Nymphs, Tenerals & Emergence Series)
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A Cicada in the process of molting - Neotibicen tibicen
Copyright © 2010 Rich Hoyer

A Cicada in the process of molting - Neotibicen tibicen
Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, USA
August 13, 2010
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Contributed by Rich Hoyer on 13 August, 2010 - 1:50am
Last updated 10 July, 2012 - 12:18pm

Moved
Moved from Swamp Cicada.
… Bill Reynolds, 10 July, 2012 - 12:18pm login or register to post comments

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Tibicen tibicen (chloromerus), Swamp Cicada (FEMALE)
Nice image!
… Bill Reynolds, 13 August, 2010 - 11:08am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks.
I was thrilled to actually see one coming out of the shell. I have just missed seeing this phenomenon several times.
… Rich Hoyer, 13 August, 2010 - 11:03pm login or register to post comments

 
When teneral...
When teneral, these are one of the prettiest cicadas!
… Bill Reynolds, 14 August, 2010 - 1:40pm login or register to post comments

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