Small Bark Squeaker - Pauropsalta fuscata

Family Cicadidae

This page contains pictures and information about Small Bark Squeaker Cicadas that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.

Body length 18mm

 

This is the smallest cicada we found. It is brown to dark brown in colour, small in size and wings are clear. It looks exactly the same as the Bark Squeaker except a bit smaller in size. On photo it is impossible to tell which is which. We believed we might have mixed up some of them in this two web page. Anyway, they do produce very different calls.

 

 

 

We found this small cicada resting on young gum tree stem in Karawatha Forest on a cloudy summer day. It did not fly away even we tried to catch it. 

  

 

 

Female laying eggs on stem. Notice the her ovipositor and the cut marks behind her.

 

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Reference:

1. Species Pauropsalta fuscata Ewart, 1989 - Australian Faunal Directory, Australian Biological Resources Study.

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