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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 » Fidicini » Scrub Cicadas (Diceroprocta) » apache-cinctifera-semicincta (Unsorted) (Diceroprocta apache-cinctifera-semicincta)

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unkn Cicada - Diceroprocta apache-cinctifera-semicincta

Cienega Creek Preserve, Pima County, Arizona, USA
June 4, 2012

Can someone ID? I'm not too good at Cicada identification. From a site dominated by Creosote, with some Sotol and Yucca elata. It was pretty much spent and could only fly a few inches at best. Thanks

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unkn Cicada - Diceroprocta apache-cinctifera-semicincta

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Contributed by Bob Beatson on 4 June, 2012 - 3:09pm
Last updated 9 July, 2012 - 3:47pm

Moved

Moved from "Scrub Cicadas".

… Bill Reynolds, 9 July, 2012 - 3:47pm

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D. apache complex.

In all honesty, there is a good bit of uncertainty concerning several of these southwestern species and how to accurately id them.

There are a few folks claiming they can separate and id. them based on formuleic characters (which I have used religiously until recently); however, in more recent conversation with several cicada specialists, there is growing consensus that these guys need a taxonomic overhaul!

Based on morphological characteristics, call similarities, and distribution patterns, the following taxa appear to be very closely related and possibly may even be conspecific representing nothing more than a complex cline (groupings of "subspecies").

Frequently confused.
Diceroprocta apache
Diceroprocta cinctifera
Diceroprocta semicincta

Another species within this group and possessing a similar (identical) call is D. marevagans.
Diceroprocta marevagans

… Bill Reynolds, 4 June, 2012 - 4:20pm

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Thank

you for the information D. apache complex will have to do for now.

… Bob Beatson, 4 June, 2012 - 6:19pm

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Moved

Moved from "Scrub Cicadas".

… Bill Reynolds, 4 June, 2012 - 4:17pm

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… Bill Reynolds, 4 June, 2012 - 4:15pm

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