Giant Cicadas

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It seems that the link is incorrect.

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Well, having taken a look at the second image all it shows is a map of the southern portion of Texas with red dots indicating where Q. gigas has been observed.

Yet, what is the point of this ? This is a worldwide audience. Nothing has been said about the species headlining your post.

I'm sorry to say this is all too vague to be of interest to anyone.
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Good grief, trehopr. Gimme a break. There is some information here that somebody might be interested in. Would you prefer that I not provide any information whatsoever? That is unscientific.
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The largest cicada species I've ever seen in my local area (North TX) is the Bush cicada (Megatibicen dorsatus) -

https://bugguide.net/node/view/2028719/bgimage

It seems I'm a bit too far north to be within the range of Quesada gigas, but I have occasionally seen a Quesadilla gigas, at restaurants.
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Dave we can't access your email, so we don't really know if there is some extra information that should go with the link. Just posting a link without explanation is indeed confusing.
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Thank you indeed Claude for summing up my sentiments perfectly.

My apologies Dave if you took my remarks in a bad way. I viewed your thread via my Android phone which has limited capabilities thus I only saw a Texas range map and a picture of the species --- nothing more could be accessed.

This is why it is important to provide a brief summary of any threads that are started because not everyone has the same computer and/or phone capabilities that others may have since this is a worldwide forum
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I don't know much about this species of cicada, other than that they're big and very loud. Here's some more info:
http://texasento.net/Cicada.htm
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I don't normally collect cicadas, but do have some specimens of Megapomponia imperatoria (Southeast Asia), just because it's the largest of the cicada species -

https://www.cicadamania.com/cicadas/meg ... wood-1842/

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