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''Megatibicen dorsatus'', known generally as the bush cicada or giant grassland cicada, is a species of cicada in the family Cicadidae.
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''M. dorsatus'' isendemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...
to the tallgrass prairies of the central United States. Adult males are host to the acoustically hunting sarcophagid
Sarcophagidae () are a family of flies commonly known as flesh flies. They differ from most flies in that they are ovoviviparous, opportunistically depositing hatched or hatching maggots instead of eggs on carrion, dung, decaying material, or op ...
parasitoid
In evolutionary ecology, a parasitoid is an organism that lives in close association with its host (biology), host at the host's expense, eventually resulting in the death of the host. Parasitoidism is one of six major evolutionarily stable str ...
, ''Emblemasoma erro''.
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* Insects described in 1825 Cryptotympanini {{Cicadidae-stub