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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 » Salmonfly (Platypedia areolata)
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Cicada, pacific coastal montane forest. 635m ASL found May 28,2006 - Platypedia areolata
Copyright © 2006 PGrace

Cicada, pacific coastal montane forest. 635m ASL found May 28,2006 - Platypedia areolata
635 meters above sea level, coastal redwood forest, Mendocino County, California, USA
May 28, 2006
Size: 30mm

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Cicada, pacific coastal montane forest. 635m ASL found May 28,2006 - Platypedia areolata Cicada, pacific coastal montane forest. 635m ASL found May 28,2006 - Platypedia areolata
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Contributed by PGrace on 3 June, 2006 - 2:06pm
Last updated 22 August, 2007 - 4:23pm

Moved
Moved from Platypedia.
… john and jane balaban, 22 August, 2007 - 4:23pm login or register to post comments

I've never seen cicadas in th
I've never seen cicadas in the area, nor heard them. Can someone identify this sp?
… PGrace, 3 June, 2006 - 2:07pm login or register to post comments

 
Platypedia.
Platypedia is the genus. They are very unusual in that the males lack the percussion sound-making organ of most cicadas. Instead, they are "wing-tappers," banging the front margin of the wings against the substrate they are perched on.
… Eric R. Eaton, 5 June, 2006 - 7:22pm login or register to post comments

 
Clicking noise
Actually, the sound is produced by rubbing the base of the wing against a small projection on the thorax, thus preserving the wings from damage if they attempted to bang them against the substrate!
… Andy Hamilton, 6 June, 2006 - 8:49am login or register to post comments

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