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Black Friday - Psaltoda pictibasis
Family
Cicadidae
- This page contains pictures and information about Black Friday Cicadas that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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 - Body length 30mm
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- The cicadas are black in colour with brown pronotal collar. They prefer
the upper trunks and large stems of very large gumtrees. Nymphs feed on
roots of Eucalypts.
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 - Female
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- We found the above cicada on Daisy Hills on Jan 2011.
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- Above photo were taken on 2005.
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- Reference:
- 1. Genus
Psaltoda Stal, 1861 - L. W. Popple, The cicadas of central eastern Australia, 2006.
- 2. Australian Cicadas - Moulds MS (1990). New South Wales University Press, NSW.
Australia.
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