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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 » Megatibicen » Northern Dusk Singing Cicada (Megatibicen grossus)
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Big cicada, probably Tibicen auletes. - Megatibicen grossus - female
Copyright © 2011 stan gilliam

Big cicada, probably Tibicen auletes. - Megatibicen grossus - Female
Oak Ridge, Guilford County, North Carolina, USA
July 22, 2011
Size: 1.5 in, "head to tail"
Came to porch light...somewhat lethargic.
Length including wings, 2.5 in.

Pruinosity and banding, plus size, say it's Tibicen auletes.

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Big cicada, probably Tibicen auletes. - Megatibicen grossus - female Big cicada, probably Tibicen auletes. - Megatibicen grossus - female Big cicada, probably Tibicen auletes. - Megatibicen grossus - female Big cicada, probably Tibicen auletes. - Megatibicen grossus - female Big cicada, probably Tibicen auletes. - Megatibicen grossus - female
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Contributed by stan gilliam on 23 July, 2011 - 7:02pm
Last updated 25 July, 2011 - 9:32am

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Bill Reynolds, 25 July, 2011 - 9:32am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, Bill.
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… stan gilliam, 25 July, 2011 - 12:41pm login or register to post comments

 
Very nice cicada & great series of images!
I wish we could get the same or like series for many of the cicadas (+ other insects) posted here on the guide.

b.t.w. This is a very nicely colored and patterned individual!
… Bill Reynolds, 25 July, 2011 - 1:26pm login or register to post comments

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