''Neotibicen linnei'', commonly called Linne's cicada, is a species of large-bodied

annual cicada Annual cicadas are Cicadidae species that appear every summer. The life cycle of an annual cicada typically spans 2 to 5'' ''years; they are "annual" only in the sense that members of the species reappear once a year. The name is used to disti ...

in the

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Neotibicen Cicadas of the genus ''Neotibicen'' are large-bodied insects of the family Cicadidae that appear in summer or early fall in eastern North America and formerly Bermuda. Common names include cicada, harvestfly, jar fly, and the misnomer locust. ...

''. It is native to the

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and

Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its Provinces and territories of Canada, ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the world's List of coun ...

. ''N. linnei'' in

Oklahoma Oklahoma ( ; Choctaw language, Choctaw: , ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. It borders Texas to the south and west, Kansas to the north, Missouri to the northea ...

is most easily identified by the

costal margin The costal margin, also known as the costal arch, is the lower edge of the chest (thorax) formed by the bottom edge of the rib cage. Structure The costal margin is the medial margin formed by the cartilages of the seventh to tenth ribs. It att ...

bent at the end of the radial cell and opercula truncated obliquely at the extremities.

References

Hemiptera of North America Insects described in 1907 Cryptotympanini {{Cicadidae-stub