Cicada Mania: Tibicen: Page 2

August 26, 2009

Tibicen auletes found by Elias Bonaros in New Jersey

Filed under: Elias Bonaros,Tibicen — by Dan Mozgai @ 9:02 pm

You might know Elias from his posts on the Message Board. Monday, after a lot of searching, he found a female Tibicen auletes in Lakewood New Jersey.

I was down in Lakewood NJ yesterday and after finding 5 more additional huge exuvia, the unthinkable happened. a female T. auletes flew to a light, hit the pole after circling many times and slid down to the ground. I easily captured her on the ground. Wanted to share this picture. look how beautiful she is with all that pruinosity!

Tibicen auletes are the largest of the North American Tibicen species. Their bodies a a little under 2″ long. Auletes are also know as the Sissor-Grinder, Northern Dusk-singing Cicada, or Great Dusk-calling Cicada. Read more at Bug Guide. The Songs of Insects site has sound files so you can listen and hear if you have auletes in your yard too.

Here’s one of Elias’ photos. Awesome, no? I’ll post another soon.

eliasauletes

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July 3, 2009

Time for the yearly Tibicen post

Filed under: Tibicen — by Dan Mozgai @ 11:37 am

The Tibicen is the genus of annual cicada most people are familiar with.

Here are some general details about Tibicen:

They emerge every summer. They do not emerge in broods.
They emerge in small numbers (small relative to periodical cicadas).
They are timid and elusive compared to periodical cicadas.
Most are physically larger than periodical cicadas.
They are well camouflaged: their colors and patterns of colors help to hide them in their surroundings. They look like little military vehicles, IMHO.
Colloquial names for Tibicens: August Dry Birds, Dog Day cicadas, Harvest Flies, Jar Flies, Bush Cicada (Tibicen dorsatus, formerly T. dorsata)

Some cool Tibicen posts and pages you should check out:

Cicada researcher Kathy Hill’s photo of 18 different Tibicen species.
It is possible to identify Tibicen just after they have molted: a visual tool to identify freshly molted Tibicens by Paul Krombholz
Tibicen anatomy page (offsite link).
Macro videos of a Tibicen by Roy Troutman
My Tibicen photos, including Marvin, the CicadaMania mascot.
All Tibicen posts on this website.
All Tibicen galleries.

An image from Roy Troutman:

Tibicen fresh out the shell

Tibicen tibicen (T. chloromerus, T. chloromera)

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June 20, 2009

Superb Tibicen superbus (formerly T. superba)

Filed under: Roy Troutman,Tibicen — by Dan Mozgai @ 11:28 am

Roy Troutman took some excellent Tibicen superbus (formerly T. superba) photos while visiting Texas.

Here’s a preview:

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July 7, 2008

Enter the Tibicen: Summer is Here

Filed under: Cicadas Misc.,Tibicen — by Dan Mozgai @ 3:29 am

The Tibicen is the genus of annual cicada most people are familiar with.

Here are some general details about Tibicen:

They emerge every summer. They do not emerge in broods.
They emerge in small numbers (small relative to periodical cicadas).
They are timid and elusive compared to periodical cicadas.
Most are physically larger than periodical cicadas.
They are well camouflaged: their colors and patterns of colors help to hide them in their surroundings. They look like little military vehicles, IMHO.
Colloquial names for Tibicens: August Dry Birds, Dog Day cicadas, Harvest Flies, Jar Flies, Bush Cicada (Tibicen dorsatus, formerly T. dorsata)

Some cool Tibicen posts and pages you should check out:

Cicada researcher Kathy Hill’s photo of 18 different Tibicen species.
It is possible to identify Tibicen just after they have molted: a visual tool to identify freshly molted Tibicens by Paul Krombholz
Tibicen anatomy page (offsite link).
Macro videos of a Tibicen by Roy Troutman
My Tibicen photos, including Marvin, the CicadaMania mascot.
All Tibicen posts on this website.
All Tibicen galleries.

An image from Roy Troutman:

Tibicen fresh out the shell

Tibicen tibicen (T. chloromerus, T. chloromera)

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May 27, 2008

New galleries: Neocicada hieroglyphica, Diceroprocta olympusa and Tibicen resonans

Filed under: Diceroprocta,Florida,Joe Green,Neocicada,Tibicen — by Dan Mozgai @ 9:47 pm

Thanks to Cicada Mania friend Joe Green we now have 3 new cicada galleries featuring cicadas we didn’t have before one the site: Neocicada hieroglyphica, Diceroprocta olympusa and Tibicen resonans.

Neocicada hieroglyphica by Joe Green, 2007

Hang in there, we’ll be back to the 17 Year Cicadas tomorrow.

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March 2, 2008

New Cicada Photos from Adam Fleishman / ID this cicada

Filed under: Adam Fleishman,Tibicen — Tags: Cicadas Misc., insects, photography, Tibicen — by Dan Mozgai @ 12:35 pm

Here’s some new photos from photographer and cicada enthusiast Adam Fleishman. As always, they’re great photos. If you can help ID the first two photos, we’d appreciate it.

Needs an ID:

T. dorsatus (formerly T.dorsata):

Tibicen superbus (formerly T. superba)

Visit Adam’s website Cometmoth Sight and Sound

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August 29, 2007

Another Tibicen ID Request

Filed under: Tibicen — by Dan Mozgai @ 2:37 pm

This one I can’t figure out, mostly because it’s well dead. Sheri T. took the photo.

The yellow eyes might be due to its postmortem condition, but they do make the specimen interesting.

Mystery Tibicen

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August 25, 2007

ID the Tibicen

Filed under: Tibicen — by Dan Mozgai @ 10:18 am

Brian Baldwin sent over some cicada photos for an ID. Here’s my guesses (below). If you have a more accurate guess, post it in the Comments.

T. dorsatus (formerly T. dorsata):

At first I thought T. walkeri, but now I’m leaning towards Brain’s guess of T. superbus. This would be the first superbus with a brown mesonotum that I’ve ever seen.:

T. dealbatus (formerly dealbata):

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August 17, 2007

Tibicens

Filed under: Tibicen — by Dan Mozgai @ 5:35 pm

I snagged a couple of Tibicen today.

A colorful Tibicen tibicen (T. chloromerus, T. 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.

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Collecting and Photographing Cicadas

Filed under: Cicadas Misc.,Tibicen — by Dan Mozgai @ 12:47 pm

Gerry Bunker has published an online guide to Pinning, Labeling and Preserving Your Cicadas. This is excellent information if you plan to start a collection.

If you would rather photograph cicadas instead, read How to Photograph Bugs and Insects. Over the years Roy Troutman has supplied Cicada Mania with many excellent macro photos of cicadas. Fans of macro photography will also appreciate these photos by Todd Quinn, Vic Fazio’s Tibicen dorsatus and my Tibicen tibicen (T. chloromerus, T. chloromera).

And just for the heck of it, here’s a list of insect ID websites:

Bug Guide, Insect Identification, What’s that Bug, and Insect Identifier.

Normally I can get the ID of a cicada fairly quickly, thanks to folks like Gerry and Paul Krombholz. Aside from Locusts, the insect most people confuse with cicadas is the Sphinx Moth.

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