Cicadas (Hemiptera, Cicadoidea)

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Cicadas (Hemiptera, Cicadoidea)

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lpopple wrote:

12 Nov 2023

Not a cicada, some type of hopper

Unidentified Cicada (Hemiptera, Cicadoidea)

lpopple wrote:

12 Nov 2023

The cicada in flight looks like Psaltoda moerens. The ID I am giving on this page is for the species in the spider web, which is different.

Yoyetta kershawi

lpopple wrote:

12 Nov 2023

Great record

Arunta perulata

KimPullen wrote:

3 Nov 2020

An immature ('nymph') cicada. They live in the soil and feed from the roots of plants by sucking the juices out of them. When a nymph is ready to change into the adult form, it will burrow up and emerge from the soil (usually after rain) and climb up a tree trunk, plant stem or even a fence or wall. It will stop, then the skin splits along the back and the cicada slowly emerges, leaving the empty 'shell'. The fresh adult cicada has crumpled wings at first, so it has to wait for them to expand and harden before it can fly.

Cicadidae (family)

JoelP wrote:

6 Oct 2020

Yep
This is the shed skin of a Greengrocer cicada.

Cicadidae (family)