Tibicens
I snagged a couple of Tibicen today.
A colorful chloromera:
and a, um… lyricen, maybe (I’ve never seen one quite like this):
They were still moving a little when I took the photos.
August 17, 2007
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Just a guess—Dan, you live somewhere in the northeast. The T. chloromera here in central Mississippi all have mostly black mesonotums, with only occasionally very small brown patches. The T. chloromera pictured from Michigan http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/projects/cicada/sp_pages/NA_species/T_chloro.html also appear to lack the brown patches. Gary Bunker’s pictures of T. chloromera from the Northeast show larger brown patches. So, as a hypothesis, T. chloromera from the Northeast have brown patches.
Comment by Paul Krombholz — September 4, 2007 @ 4:22 am
That’s right — I live in New Jersey. The cicadas were found in Middletown, NJ.
Comment by Dan — September 4, 2007 @ 5:33 am