To the museums!
With the season finished and quite a few good specimens found, I'm heading out west again to compare some of our material to the museum specimens that have already been identified. I'll be hitting the California Academy of Sciences to look up the potential Bliven material and a few others, and Oregon State to look at the material they have and see what is unidentified.
@stepanni added a badly-needed Okanagana tanneri to our holdings, the DNA of which has now been extracted
@jessica239 sent the odd prairie-dwelling Okanagana balli from Minnesota
@rickwalks sent us some great nigrodorsata and occidentali from Tahoe.
It's honestly a lot like Pokemon Go, but with cicadas. The end product will be a bit more exciting though! We have begun to put together a phylogeny with some interesting result!
