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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 » Walker's Cicada (Megatibicen pronotalis) » Walker's Annual Cicada ("Southern-Eastern race" = "ssp. walkeri") (Megatibicen pronotalis Walker's Annual Cicada ("Southern-Eastern race" = "ssp. walkeri"))
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Green Cicada - Megatibicen pronotalis
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Green Cicada - Megatibicen pronotalis
Armleder Park, Hamilton County, Ohio, USA
September 15, 2013
Is this attractive green cicada a Tibicen superbus?
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Contributed by appletree on 17 September, 2013 - 9:50pm
Last updated 22 October, 2013 - 3:25pm

Moved
Moved from Walker's Cicada.
… Bill Reynolds, 22 October, 2013 - 3:25pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Bill Reynolds, 18 September, 2013 - 9:06am login or register to post comments

Female Tibicen pronotalis
The coloration appears to be that of the Walker's cicada, Tibicen pronotalis. Superbus has an extreme lack of black patterning on the thorax.
… Chao "Jimmy" Wu, 17 September, 2013 - 9:58pm login or register to post comments

 
Agreed, T. pronotalis walkeri
Oh, wait... They aren't Walker's cicadas anymore per Dr. Hamilton??? Sanborn still has them listed as a separate species in a recent 2013 publication, "Biogeography of the Cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of North America, North of Mexico."

But, I digress.

Be that as it may, I do believe this is a first on Bugguide for a T. pronotalis (walkeri) from Ohio.
… Bill Myers, 17 September, 2013 - 10:01pm login or register to post comments

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