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Green Grocer (Cyclochila australasiae) photos from Kees Green. Australia. 2013.
Green Grocer Cyclochila australasiae nymph by Kees Green
Green Grocer Cyclochila australasiae molting by Kees Green
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Green Grocer Cyclochila australasiae molting by Kees Green
Green Grocer Cyclochila australasiae Adults by Kees Green
Kevin Lee’s Green Grocer (Cyclochila australasiae) photos:
This one is somewhere between a Green Grocer and a Yellow Monday, I think. Check out the “mask” between the eyes:
Yellow Monday (Cyclochila australasiae) photos by Tom Katzoulopolopoulous.
Green Grocer (Cyclochila australasiae) photo by Bron. Taken in Australia in 2007.
Cyclochila australasiae (Donovan, 1805) is found in Australia and is remarkable for its variety of color morph, including green (Green Grocers), yellow (Yellow Mondays), blue (Blue Moons), and orange (Masked Devils).
Scientific classification:
Family: Cicadidae
Subfamily: Cicadinae
Tribe: Cyclochilini
Genus: Cyclochila
Species: Cyclochila australasiae (Donovan, 1805)
A Green Grocer:
Green Grocer Photo by Kevin Lee.
A Green Grocer Specimen:
Rare Blue Moon variety. Photo by David Emery.
Cyclochila genus description by W. L. Distant:
Characters. — Head about long as breadth between eyes, including eyes distinctly narrower than pronotum but almost as wide as its anterior margin, ocelli close together near middle of vertex, very much more remote from eyes than from each other; face longer than broad, moderately globose; pronotum about as long as mesonotum including the cruciform elevation, its lateral. margins moderately convexly ampliated ; abdomen about as long as space between apex of head and base of cruciform elevation, beneath moderately convex ; opercula short, not passing base of abdomen ; tegmina about or nearly three times longer than broad, basal cell scarcely longer than broad, apical areas eight; wings more than half the length of tegmina, apical areas six.
More Ozzie Cicada photos have come in. Here is an incredible Blue Moon taken by David Emery (found by his daughter). The Blue Moon is the same species as the Green Grocer (Cyclochila australasiae).
