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Tibicen pronotalis var walkeri - Megatibicen pronotalis - male
Copyright © 2011 slikk03

Tibicen pronotalis var walkeri - Megatibicen pronotalis - Male
Moweaqua, Shelby County, Illinois, USA
August 18, 2011

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Tibicen pronotalis var walkeri - Megatibicen pronotalis - male Tibicen pronotalis var walkeri - Megatibicen pronotalis - male
Contributed by slikk03 on 19 August, 2011 - 3:44pm
Last updated 22 October, 2013 - 3:29pm

Moved
Moved from Walker's Cicada.
… Bill Reynolds, 22 October, 2013 - 3:29pm

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Bill Reynolds, 22 August, 2011 - 10:03am

They are generally considered to be the same thing
with "walkeri" a synonym of "pronotalis".
… David J. Ferguson, 21 August, 2011 - 7:24pm

 
yea i know that now. years ag
yea i know that now. years ago i thought the black marking on the pronotome verified that this example was var walkeri. the changed this taxa up so much i got lost. their brown/yellow/green and orange varaints and also pronotome marking variations
… slikk03, 21 August, 2011 - 9:44pm

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