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Great Cicadas
Megatibicen
Megatibicen is a genus of North American cicadas in the tribe Tacuini, with about 10 described species. Until 2016, these species were included in the genus Tibicen (now genus Lyristes Horvath, 1926) and then briefly in Neotibicen. The species formerly of genera Ameritibicen Lee, 2016 and Gigatibicen Lee, 2016 are now considered species of Megatibicen Sanborn & Heath, 2016.
11 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Resh Cicada
speciesMegatibicen resh

Northern Dusk-singing Cicada
speciesMegatibicen grossus

Plains Cicada
speciesMegatibicen dealbatus

Bush Cicada
speciesMegatibicen dorsatus

Walker's Annual Cicada
speciesMegatibicen pronotalis

Resonant Cicada
speciesMegatibicen resonans

Fall Southeastern Dusk-singing Cicada
speciesMegatibicen figuratus

Grand Western Flood Plain Cicada
speciesMegatibicen cultriformis

Cole's Bush Cicada
speciesMegatibicen tremulus

Great Mescalero Cicada
speciesMegatibicen harenosus
Tibicen plebeja
speciesTibicen plebeja
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 559954.