Tibicen pruinosus, "Scissors Grinder Cicada"
http://bugguide.net/node/view/6967
Tuscumbia, Colbert County, Alabama, USA
coll. M. Reynolds (w/ B. Reynolds & G. Reynolds)
June-July 2010
Individuals from this region often share characters typical of Tibicen pruinosus & winnemanna. Somewhere in the upper mid-South (Appalachia into the Tennessee River Valley ... west to the Mississippi River), there seems to be a break down in the delineating characters between T. pruinosus and T. winnemanna ... detailed studies of these populations are needed to untangle the relationships.
NOTE: Both "pruinosus" and "winnemanna" may be encountered in the literature as belonging to the "same species" (=subspecies of T. pruinosus) or as distinct taxa. A third taxon, T. latifasciatus, may also be considered a subspecies of pruinosus in some lit.; however, latifasciatus is by far the most distinct member of this complex.
To compare members of the "pruinosus complex", please refer to the following links:
Tibicen winnemanna:
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/189304
Tibicen latifasciatus:
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/188922
Youtube video & sound file for T. pruinosus:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3R7TH0-DFQ