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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) » Tibicininae » Platypediini » Platypedia » Undetermined Platypedia "Molts, Nymphs, Tenerals & Emergence Series" (Platypedia Undetermined Platypedia "Molts, Nymphs, Tenerals & Emergence Series")
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Cicada husk on oak tree - Platypedia
Copyright © 2011 Ken Schneider

Cicada husk on oak tree - Platypedia
Stulsaft Park, Redwood City, San Mateo County, California, USA
March 26, 2011
Size: 2.5 cm
Found on the main trunk of an oak tree - probably a coast live oak.

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Cicada husk on oak tree - Platypedia Cicada husk on oak tree - Platypedia
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Contributed by Ken Schneider on 26 March, 2011 - 11:58am
Last updated 9 August, 2012 - 10:29am

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… Bill Reynolds, 9 August, 2012 - 10:29am login or register to post comments

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… Bill Reynolds, 28 March, 2011 - 9:43am login or register to post comments

Platypedia sp.
There are some casts with distinct identification features (esp. to Genus).

Platypedia casts are approx. 1 inch long (2.54 cm), hairy in appearance, possess heavily annulated abdomens, and a dark longitudinal stripe running the length of the thorax and abdomen, as seen here.

Additionally, along with Okanagana, these cicadas are among the first to emerge in spring along the West Coast. March eclosion dates are not unusual, esp. in s. Calif.
… Bill Reynolds, 28 March, 2011 - 9:40am login or register to post comments

Moved
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