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"Swamp Cicada"

Tibicen tibicen

Description:

About 2 inches long, one of the biggest I've ever seen

2 Comments

Bill Reynolds
Bill Reynolds 11 years ago

Compare the following:

"Swamp Cicada", Tibicen tibicen (syn. chloromerus)
http://bugguide.net/node/view/734701

"Lyric Cicada", Tibicen lyricen
http://bugguide.net/node/view/12261
"Dark Lyric Cicada", T. lyricen var. engelhardti
http://bugguide.net/node/view/60925

Note the following characters:
leg color (green in tibicen & brown in lyricen/engelhardti)
pronotal color (large green pronotal patches vs. black pronotum with centralized yellowish-green anchor-shape)

MrsPbio
MrsPbio 11 years ago

Definitely a cicada of some sort. Not sure of species. Tibicen spp.

AnaMoral
Spotted by
AnaMoral

Clinton, Mississippi, USA

Spotted on Sep 2, 2012
Submitted on Sep 3, 2012

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