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Order
Hemiptera
- This page contains pictures and information about Cicadas
that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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 - Double Drummer Cicadas - the largest cicadas in Australia,
making loudest sound in insect world.
Cicadas are well known because their 'song' is the back ground
noise here in summer. Their empty shells often seen on tree trunks and
fences. The young nymphs live underground suck the roots of trees.
They may live underground for many years, come up from soil in summer, have the
final moulting and leave those empty shells. This is the male who sing the
song to attract female. Each species have different 'songs'.
More information about cicada in general can be found in this Cicada
Biology page.
Classification :
Cicadas - subfamily Cicadinae
This subfamily Cicadinae
includes mostly large cicada species.
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Cicadas - subfamily Tibicininae
This subfamily Tibicininae includes mostly small to medium size cicada species.
- Reference and links:
- 1. Insects
of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, pp 465.
- 2. Identification
Keys and Checklists for the leafhoppers, planthoppers and their
relatives occurring in Australia and New Zealand (Hemiptera:
Auchenorrhyncha). Fletcher, M.J. and
Larivière, M.-C. (2001 and updates).
- 3. Family
CICADIDAE - Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of the Environment and
Heritage.
- 4. Australian Cicadas - Moulds MS (1990). New South Wales University Press, NSW. Australia.
- 5. Cicadas – our Summer
Singers - Geoff Monteith, Queensland Museum, leaflet 0036, September 2000.
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