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Black Prince - Psaltoda plaga
Family
Cicadidae
- This page contains pictures and information about Black Prince Cicadas that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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 - Body length male 30mm, male
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- The common name Black Prince was loosely applied to almost any cicada
which were black in colour. Then it is now exclusively used for Psaltoda plaga.
The cicadas are black in colour with brown pronotal collar. They prefer main
stems instead of tree trunk. Nymphs feed on
roots of Eucalypts and many other native plants.
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- Found the above cicada entangled in spider web in Karawatha Forest. It was
Jan 2010.
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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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