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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 » Resh Cicada (Megatibicen resh)
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TX - Cicada - Megatibicen resh - female
Copyright © 2012 Colette Micallef

TX - Cicada - Megatibicen resh - Female
Liberty County, Texas, USA
July 4, 2012
Landed on the outter edge of a small limb for egg laying

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Contributed by Colette Micallef on 16 July, 2012 - 1:15am
Last updated 16 July, 2012 - 10:00am

QUESTION?
Do you know if this cicada is ovipositing in a living twig (Wateer Oak, Quercus nigra).

It looks as though the branch is living and not dead.

I strongly suspect this species, like its close relative T. auletes, will use living twigs!
… Bill Reynolds, 18 July, 2012 - 4:32pm login or register to post comments

 
It is a live twig very near t
It is a live twig very near the end of the branch. What is below the ovipositor? She seem to use this to help give leverage as she punctured the twig. I got a few short videos but not that great.
… Colette Micallef, 20 July, 2012 - 11:44pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you!
There has been debate regarding the oviposition by Tibicen species in living twigs and I have seen several species do this!

Thank you for you pic's and observation reports ;)
… Bill Reynolds, 24 July, 2012 - 9:20am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Bill Reynolds, 16 July, 2012 - 10:00am login or register to post comments

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