{"id":18901,"date":"2023-10-20T19:44:52","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T02:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=18901"},"modified":"2023-10-20T19:44:52","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T02:44:52","slug":"megatibicen-grossus-odds-and-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/megatibicen-grossus-odds-and-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"Megatibicen grossus odds and ends"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had virtually no time in the summer of 2023 to look for cicadas outside my town. Also in 2023, the name of Megatibicen auletes (Germar, 1834) aka Northern Dusk Singing Cicada<\/a> changed to Megatibicen grossus<\/a>. While I was not lucky enough to see a Megatibicen grossus, I did find exuvia (molted skins), a headless corpse and some exit holes in late August in the Brendan Byrne park in New Jersey. Something is better than nothing. <\/p>\n

A male exuvia and a headless female Megatibicen grossus<\/strong>
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A headless female Megatibicen grossus<\/strong>
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A Megatibicen grossus exuvia with ruler.<\/strong>
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A Megatibicen grossus hole<\/strong>
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Three exuvia top to bottom: Megatibicen auletes, Neotibicen sp., Neocicada hieroglyphica<\/strong>
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I had virtually no time in the summer of 2023 to look for cicadas outside my town. Also in 2023, the name of Megatibicen auletes (Germar, 1834) aka Northern Dusk Singing Cicada changed to Megatibicen grossus. While I was not lucky enough to see a Megatibicen grossus, I did find exuvia (molted skins), a headless […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,316],"tags":[342,1043],"class_list":["post-18901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exuvia","category-megatibicen","tag-m-auletes","tag-m-grossus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18901","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=18901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}