Research request...
Insect folks! A researcher needs your help this summer collecting a cicada that lives at Sagehen.
From Will Chatfield-Taylor:
"Thank for passing the message along! O. arboraria is kind of a nightmare to collect. Aptly named, they don't usually come down from the very tops of trees and they are pretty much endemic to the river corridor there [at Sagehen]. We'll be doing our field season in Utah trying to pick up a few remaining taxa, but if any of you can get one, it would help our research immensely.
Dr. Jeff Cole and I are revising the genus and it includes a molecular phylogeny as well as a morphological revision and new species descriptions. iNaturalist has been amazing in helping us acquire specimens from collectors across the western US and get in touch with people who will be looking for us this coming year."
