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Hello,

i found this cicada today. Is it possible to define the infraorder on the basis of this pictures ?

loc . munich germany in a forrest
size. aprox 2-3 mm

Best regards

Richie

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I think it is a Stenocranus.

John Bratton

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Thanks John.

Regards
Richie

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I ran it through the British key (Le Quesne's RES Handbook). Germany has the same species. It came to Stenocranus minutus. A = 2x B, whereas in the other species A is no more than 1.5 x B. Also, the foretibia does not widen towards the tip and the dark lines on the frons look brown rather than black.

John

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Thanks again John. After you gave me the family i assumed minutus after comparing a lot of pictures and informations on the web. Now i can categorize it on wikimedia commons. Could this be a early stage of S. minutus ?

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Well, it could be, but I don't know enough about them to recognise the early stages. Its forehead needs to grow quite a lot to match its mum.