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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
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Cicada? - Platypedia
Copyright © 2012 Gary Park

Cicada? - Platypedia
Sanata Clarita, Los Angeles County
May 26, 2012
Size: ~1 inch
Flicks wings to make a clicking noise. No continuous drone like some.
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Contributed by Gary Park on 27 May, 2012 - 12:01am
Last updated 29 May, 2012 - 12:00pm

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Bill Reynolds, 29 May, 2012 - 12:00pm login or register to post comments

Platypedia sp. (Platypedia barbata?)
this is one of the "crepitating cicadas" in the Platypedia group


The "hairy" face, wing shape and coloration are all suggestive of P. barbata
… Bill Reynolds, 29 May, 2012 - 11:32am login or register to post comments

Cicada
Are you sure it is only one inch? Because it looks like a cicada to me.
… Stephen Tapsak, 28 May, 2012 - 8:59pm login or register to post comments

 
It is a cicada.
They can be an inch, some are even smaller. Depends on the species.
… Natalie Hernandez, 28 May, 2012 - 9:57pm login or register to post comments

 
cicada
Oh. Because the ones around our house are two or three inches!
… Stephen Tapsak, 29 May, 2012 - 7:40am login or register to post comments

 
Yep.
The Annual or Dog-day Cicadas in the genus Tibicen are the most common and are fairly large, but I've collected some out west similar to this one that are only half an inch or so.
… Natalie Hernandez, 29 May, 2012 - 11:58am login or register to post comments

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