Abstract
A recent publication (Sanborn et al. 2008) removed the cicada Tibicen pronotalis walkeri Metcalf stat. nov. [= T. walkeri Metcalf = T. marginalis (Walker) = T. marginata (Say), see last paragraph for new taxonomic status] from the list of species recorded from Florida, stating that no specimens were known from the state and that previous records were probably misidentifications of other Tibicen Latr. species. In the summer of 2008, we found T. p. walkeri (Fig. 1a) near the Chattahoochee River inside the Florida border and near the Chattahoochee, Flint, and Kinchafoonee waterways in Georgia (Fig. 1b). We return this species to the list of cicadas in Florida, and add a couplet to the key of Sanborn et al. (2008). Additional surveys are needed to determine the poorly known ranges of cicada species in the USA, and a focus on species-specific songs provides a means of accomplishing this task quickly and accurately.
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