Bladder cicada trading card. Bladder cicadas (Cystosoma saundersii) are found in Australia. Link to Dr. Popple’s website for more info.
July 12, 2020
August 31, 2016
An early start to Australia’s cicada season
Cicada researcher and photographer Nathan Emery found his first Bladder Cicada (Cystosoma saundersii) for the year. See this iNaturalist page. It is still winter there, so this is particular interesting.
@ecotechnica @_DrPop_ @inaturalist and so it begins!
— Aaron Greenville (@AarontheEcolog) August 31, 2016
@AarontheEcolog @_DrPop_ @inaturalist Hopefully a good omen for a bumper season! ping @cicadamania
— Nathan Emery (@ecotechnica) August 31, 2016
A Bladder cicada looks like this (Cystosoma saundersii):
Photo by David Emery.
Read more about this cicada on Dr. Pop’s website.
September 22, 2013
Cicada Season has begun in Australia
David Emery wrote to let us know that cicada season has begun in parts of Australia:
After some 50mm of rain on 16-17 Sept and the warmest winter on record on the east coast, the “masked devil” morphs of Cyclochila australasiae were in good voice in the mountains west and south of Sydney, Australia on 22nd Sept. The bladder cicadas (Cystosoma saundersii) are also rattling in Metro Sydney. These are about 2 weeks early this year as are several of the smaller grass cicadas and Pauropsalta species. Roll on summer!
Cheers, David.
Masked Devil cicada (Cyclochila australasiae):
More information about Cyclochila australasiae.
Bladder cicadas (Cystosoma saundersii):
More information about Cystosoma saundersii.
Bottle Cicada (Chlorocysta sp.):
More information about Bottle cicadas.
December 2, 2012
Mating Bladder cicadas
An excellent photo of mating Bladder cicadas (Cystosoma saundersii) by David Emery.
September 16, 2010
Bladder Cicadas out in Sydney
Thanks to David Emery for letting us know that the Bladder cicadas (Cystosoma saundersii) are out in Sydney Australia, and for providing this photo.
Badder cicadas are emerging down the Aussie east coast starting around the Queensland -NSW border on Sept 3 (FlickR) and we heard them for the first time on Sept 10 in Sydney. A photo of one captured on Sept 12 is attached to refresh Cicadamania devotees.
November 27, 2009
Cystosoma saundersii (bladder cicada)
David Emery send us a photo of a Cystosoma saundersii (bladder cicada) from Australia and we added it to the gallery.
Just to complement the Aussie cicadas, a small colony of these Cystosoma saundersii have been droning and rattling at dusk around Burwoood in Sydney for the past 2 months. This is their southern-most extension down the east coast of Australia.
cheers,
David.
Click the link above or the image below to access large versions of the image.
More information about Cystosoma saundersii on the CSIRO site.
The Bladder Cicada can be sound in eastern Queensland & NSW, and are most common Nov-Jan. (Moulds, M.S.. Australian Cicadas Kennsignton: New South Wales Press, 1990, p. 193.)
Here’s a photo of a diseased specimen:
