Category: Genera

Genera of cicadas.

Gallery of Cicada Photos from Costa Rica by Jose Mora, part 5

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Post date October 16, 2023
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Gallery of Cicada Photos from Costa Rica by Jose Mora, part 5.
More: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 6.

These are nighttime photos and appear to be a cicada belonging to the genus Quesada, like Quesada gigas.

Molting cicada:
Cicada Photos from Costa Rica by Jose Mora,

The cicada has left its nymphal skin, and now its body can harden:
Cicada Photos from Costa Rica by Jose Mora,

Costa Rica Jose Mora Photos & Illustrations Quesada

Gallery of Cicada Photos from Costa Rica by Jose Mora, part 4

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Post date October 16, 2023
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Gallery of Cicada Photos from Costa Rica by Jose Mora, part 4.
More: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 5, Part 6.

These are nighttime photos and appear to be a cicada belonging to the genus Quesada, like Quesada gigas.

Cicada nymph:
Cicada Nymph Photo from Costa Rica

Molting cicada:
Molting Cicada Photo from Costa Rica

Cicada nymphs on a tree:

Teneral (soft) cicada that recently molted:
Molting Cicada Photo from Costa Rica

Adult cicada:

Teneral (soft) cicada that recently molted:

Teneral (soft) cicada that recently molted:
Molting Cicada Photo from Costa Rica

Molting cicada:

Elias Bonaros Neotibicen Photos & Illustrations

Neotibicen canicularis in Lakewood, NJ

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Post date October 13, 2023
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This is a series of Neotibicen canicularis Northern Dog-Day cicada photos from Lakewood, NJ taken by Elias Bonaros.

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A recently molted male Neotibicen canicularis cicada:

A recently molted male Neotibicen canicularis cicada:

A molting Neotibicen canicularis cicada:

Tags N. canicularis

Elias Bonaros Neotibicen Photos & Illustrations

Neotibicen lyricen photo by Elias Bonaros

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Post date October 13, 2023
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This is a photo of a teneral (soft) Neotibicen lyricen cicada by Elias Bonaros.

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Tags N. lyricen

Elias Bonaros Neotibicen Photos & Illustrations

Neotibicen linnei photo by Elias Bonaros

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Post date October 13, 2023
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This is a photo by Elias Bonaros of a teneral (soft) Neotibicen linnei cicada and its exuvia (molted skin). It was taken in 2009, and knowing Elias, probably in New York or New Jersey.

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Neotibicen linnei teneral and its exuvia:

Tags N. linnei

Cicada Killer Wasps Elias Bonaros Neotibicen Photos & Illustrations

Cicada Killer Wasp photos by Elias Bonaros

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Post date October 13, 2023
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Here are two Cicada Killer Wasp photos by Elias Bonaros. The Cicada Killer Wasp has captured a Neotibicen tibicen tibicen cicada. These photos are from 2009.

Yes, Elias is holding the wasp and cicada on has hand!

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Cicada Killer Wasp and Neotibicen tibicen:

Brood XIII Magicicada Periodical Stragglers

Fall Magicicada cassini straggler found in Park Ridge, IL

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Post date October 3, 2023
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Mary Rotter Fullerton found, or rather heard and recorded, a Brood XIII Magicicada cassini straggler on October 2nd, 2023, in Park Ridge, Illinois! This cicada emerged 7 months early!

Listen to the edited file (volume increased, background noise removed):

There are squirrel sounds in the mix as well.

Mary says:

Very cool, I have never heard one in fall. It was in a 50-year old maple tree that hosted many stragglers (early Brood XIII?) this past spring of 2023. Park Ridge, IL.

Spectrogram:
Mary Rotter Fullerton

David Marshall of InsectSingers.com confirmed that this is indeed a Magicicada cassini.

David says:

Yes to me that’s unquestionably a set of cassini calls. There are some literature records of autumn Magicicada, sometimes with speculation that it’s related to sudden late-season warmups.

It looks like there’s been quite a few fall stragglers, according to the Magicicada Straggler project on iNaturalist.

Tags M. cassini

Megatibicen Photos & Illustrations

Fall Southeastern Dusk-Singing Cicada photo by Riley Campbell

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Post date September 27, 2023
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Here’s an awesome photo of a Fall Southeastern Dusk-Singing Cicada by Riley Campbell:

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More information about Megatibicen figuratus (Walker, 1858) aka Fall Southeastern Dusk-singing Cicada.

Tags M. figuratus

Neotibicen

Mystery Neotibicen in Edison, New Jersey

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Post date September 13, 2023
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Linnes-x-Winnemanna

Occasionally similar cicada species mate and form hybrids. Neotibicen linnei aka Linne’s Cicada exists in most of New Jersey and Neotibicen winnemanna aka Eastern Scissors Grinder exists in central and south-western New Jersey. These two species are known to hybridize. The other day I heard a cicada and wasn’t quite sure what it was. The tone sounded like Linne’s Cicada but the rhythm was like the Eastern Scissors Grinder. Is it a hybrid? The good people over on the Cicada Discussion, Science and Study Group say it’s likely a hybrid.

Here’s the audio:

Maybe the most interesting thing is proof of the existence of Eastern Scissors Grinder in Middlesex County, New Jersey. Others have heard them in East Brunswick as well.

Spectrogram:

spectrogram of the hybrid's song.