Tibicen auletes (Germar)
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Tibicen auletes (Germar) View in CoL (Figs. 13, 34–42)
Tettigonia grossa Fabricius 1775: 678 View in CoL .
Cicada auletes Germar 1834: 65 . Type locality: Pennsylvania. Location of the holotype specimen is unknown. Fidicina literata Walker 1850: 91 View in CoL .
Cicada sonora Walker 1850: 105 .
Cicada marginata [nec Say], Howard 1901: plate XXVIII, Figure 19.
Tibicen auletes View in CoL first emerge in early June and can be heard singing until early October. The most common collection dates are in August. The song has been described to sound like roller skates being stroked on a sidewalk or a heavy pulsating drone lasting 15–20 sec with a peak frequency around 3.2 kHz ( Alexander 1956; Moore 1966; Alexander et al. 1972; Daniel et al. 1993; Elliott and Hershberger 2006). Davis (1918; 1922; 1926) remarked on how quiet the song was for the size of the species. A sonagram of the call can be found in Alexander (1956; 1960) and Elliott and Hershberger (2006). They sing individually during the day but chorus at dusk ( Davis 1918; 1922; 1926; Moore 1966; Alexander et al. 1972). The species is associated with rocky ravines and hillsides with oak ( Quercus View in CoL spp.) ( Beamer 1928), oak woods in sandy soils ( Alexander et al. 1972) and hardwood habitats ( Daniel et al. 1993). It has been observed to prefer to oviposit in oak and willow ( Salix spp.) ( Beamer 1925) and a fifth instar nymph was removed from oak by Beamer (1928).
Tibicen auletes View in CoL is found in the forested areas primarily in the north and central portion of the state (Fig. 13). It inhabits various divisions of the Southeastern Plains and Southern Coastal Plains ecoregions. The species has been collected in Alachua, Duval, Hillsborough, Jackson, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, Madison, Manatee, Okaloosa, and Volusia counties in Florida. The distributions of the closely related T. figuratus View in CoL and T. resonans View in CoL extend further south along the east coast than does the distribution of T. auletes View in CoL .
Alexander, R. D. (1956) A comparative study of sound production in insects, with special reference to the singing Orthoptera and Cicadidae of the eastern United States. Ph. D. dissertation, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 529 pp.
Alexander, R. D. (1960) Sound communication in Orthoptera and Cicadidae. In: Lanyon, W. E., & Tavolga, W. N. (Eds), Animal Sounds and Communication. American Institute of Biological Sciences Symposium Series Publication, 7, 38 - 92.
Alexander, R. D., Pace, A. E., & Otte, D. (1972) The singing insects of Michigan. Great Lakes Entonologist, 5, 33 - 69.
Beamer, R. L. (1925) Notes on the ovipostition of some Kansas cicadas. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 18, 479 - 482.
Beamer, R. L. (1928) Studies on the biology of Kansas Cicadidae. The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 18, 155 - 263.
Daniel H. J., Knight, C., & Charles, T. M. (1993) Predicting species by call in three species of North Carolina cicadas. The Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society, 109, 67 - 76.
Davis, W. T. (1918) Mississippi cicadas, with a key to the species of the southeastern United States. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 26, 141 - 155.
Davis, W. T. (1922) An annotated list of the cicadas of Virginia with description of a new species. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 30, 36 - 52.
Davis, W. T. (1926) The cicadas or harvest flies of New Jersey. State of New Jersey Department of Agriculture Circular, 97, 3 - 26.
Elliott, L., & Hershberger, W. (2006) The songs of insects. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 228 pp.
Fabricius, J. C. (1775) Ryngota. Systema entomologiae, sistens insectorum classes, ordines, genera, species, adiectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibus, observationibus. 832 pp.
Germar, E. R. (1834) Observations sur plusieurs especes du genre Cicada, Latr. Revue Entomologique Publiee par Gustav Silbermann, 2, 49 - 82.
Howard, L. O. (1901) Suborder Homoptera. The insect book. A popular account of the bees, wasps, ants, grasshoppers, flies and other North American insects exclusive of the butterflies, moths and beetles, with full life histories, tables and bibliographies. Doubleday, Page & Co., New York, 429 pp.
Moore, T. E. (1966) The cicadas of Michigan (Homoptera: Cicadidae). Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters, 51, 75 - 95.
Walker, F. (1850) List of the Specimens of Homopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum, British Museum Trustees, London, 1, 1 - 260.
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Cicadoidea |
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Cicadinae |
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Cryptotympanini |
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Tibicen auletes (Germar)
Sanborn, Allen F., Phillips, Polly K. & Gilllis, Philip 2008 |
Cicada sonora
Walker 1850: 105 |
Cicada auletes
Walker 1850: 91 |
Germar 1834: 65 |
Tettigonia grossa
Fabricius 1775: 678 |
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