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Megatibicen auletes from Bill Reynolds’ collection. A lot of cicadas! People send Bill cicadas from all over the U.S., because he’s a renowned cicada expert, and his collection grows and grows. Lucky guy.
* Note as of 2023 the name of this cicada has changed to Megatibicen grossus. You can also call it a Northern Dusk-Signing Cicada.
Megatibicen dealbatus from Bill Reynolds’ collection.
Megatibicen dorsatus from Bill Reynolds’ collection.
Neotibicen lyricen from Bill Reynolds’ collection.
Top row is Neotibicen lyricen lyricen, and Bottom row is Neotibicen lyricen engelhardi.
Megatibicen pronotalis from Bill Reynolds’ collection.
Megatibicen resh from Bill Reynolds’ collection.
Neotibicen superbus from Bill Reynolds’ collection.
Neotibicen tibicen tibicen with red cruciform elevations from Bill Reynold’s collection.
This is a Vittagaeana dives (Westwood, 1842) from the W.T. Davis cicada collection at the Staten Island Museum. I believe they can be found in India.
This cicada was formerly known as Tosena dives, but its name recently changed due to research done as part of the article: Hill Kathy B. R., Marshall David C., Marathe Kiran, Moulds Maxwell S., Lee Young June, Pham Thai-Hong, Mohagan Alma B., Sarkar Vivek, Price Benjamin W., Duffels J. P., Schouten Marieke A., de Boer Arnold J., Kunte Krushnamegh, Simon Chris (2021) The molecular systematics and diversification of a taxonomically unstable group of Asian cicada tribes related to Cicadini Latreille, 1802 (Hemiptera:Cicadidae). Invertebrate Systematics 35, 570-601.
Scientific classification:
Family: Cicadidae
Subfamily: Cicadinae
Tribe: Gaeanini
Genus: Vittagaeana
Species: Vittagaeana dives (Westwood, 1842)
See the related cicada: Vittagaeana paviei (Noualhier, 1896)
Photos of a molting or molted Neotibicen by Gerry Bunker from 2005.
