{"id":18112,"date":"2023-07-29T18:37:18","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T01:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=18112"},"modified":"2023-07-29T18:37:57","modified_gmt":"2023-07-30T01:37:57","slug":"neotibicen-lyricen-engelhardti-alien-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/neotibicen-lyricen-engelhardti-alien-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Neotibicen lyricen engelhardti alien head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Neotibicen lyricen engelhardti<\/strong> aka <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/neotibicen-lyricen-engelhardti-davis-1910-aka-dark-lyric-cicada\/\">Dark Lyric Cicada<\/a> is a cicada that is distinguisable from the &#8220;Lighter&#8221; Lyric Cicada (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/neotibicen-lyricen-lyricen-de-geer-1773-aka-lyric-cicada\/\">Neotibicen lyricen lyricen<\/a>) by what I call the &#8220;alien head&#8221; on its pronotum.<\/p>\n<p>Once you see it, you cannot unsee it:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Neotibicen-lyricen-engelhardti-alien-head.jpg\" alt=\"Neotibicen lyricen engelhardti alien head\" width=\"523\" height=\"533\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Neotibicen-lyricen-engelhardti-alien-head.jpg 523w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Neotibicen-lyricen-engelhardti-alien-head-294x300.jpg 294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 523px) 100vw, 523px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Quoting <a href=\"https:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/60925\">from BugGuide:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe dark form, engelhardti, has a more eastern, northern and upland distribution (very common in and along the eastern mountains &#038; associated plateaus\/fall-line hills). Perhaps the increased pigment seen in this color form serves a thermoregulatory function associated with cooler temps and greater day-night temp differentials seen in higher altitudes and latitudes.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neotibicen lyricen engelhardti aka Dark Lyric Cicada is a cicada that is distinguisable from the &#8220;Lighter&#8221; Lyric Cicada (Neotibicen lyricen lyricen) by what I call the &#8220;alien head&#8221; on its pronotum. Once you see it, you cannot unsee it: Quoting from BugGuide: The dark form, engelhardti, has a more eastern, northern and upland distribution (very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[300],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neotibicen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}