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Family Cicadidae
- This page contains pictures and information about Brown Bunyip Cicadas that we found in
the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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 - Male, body length 20mm
- Brown Bunyip is one of the most commonly seen cicada in Brisbane bushlands
and gardens. Most pictures
in this page were taken on the Liquidambar trees in our backyard in Eight mile Plains in Brisbane
during mid summer. They can also be found on casuarinas (she-oak), acacias
(wattle) and jacarandas.
They are medium size and usually sit on the tree trunks about
two meters from ground. They often sit in the shadow, together with their camouflaged
colour, they are not easily be seen.
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- Male, body length 20mm
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- This Cicada is light brown in colour with relatively long narrow body. Across
the abdomen there are the black, brown and light brown narrow bands.
Female's wings
are clear, males have three dark spots on tips of each forewings. Males
also have boarder and short abdomen.
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 - Female, body length 20mm
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- We took the above pictures on a gum tree trunk near Bulimba Creek in early
summer. The Cicada was hard to be noticed for its camouflage colour. It is
pale brown in colour with clear wings.
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- Their song is a long even continuous low pitch
zeep which may continue for minutes.
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- Reference:
- 1. Wildlife of Greater
Brisbane - Queensland Museum, Brisbane, 1997, p85.
- 2. Species
Tamasa tristigma (Germar, 1834) - Australian Faunal Directory, Australian Biological Resources Study.
- 3. Cicadas
– our Summer Singers - Geoff Monteith, Queensland Museum, September 2000.
- 4. Australian Cicadas - Moulds MS (1990). New South Wales University Press, NSW.
Australia, p105.
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