Can you identify this cicada from Brisbane Australia? These images were sent to us by Darren Fairbrother. Help us id this cicada.
Update! It is a Psaltoda claripennis Ashton, 1921 aka Clanger, from Australia.
For more information about this cicada, visit A web guide toThe cicadas of Australia by L. W. Popple.
Scientific classification:
Family: Cicadidae
Subfamily: Cicadinae
Tribe: Cryptotympanini
SubTribe: Cryptotympanina
Genera: Genera
Species: Psaltoda claripennis Ashton, 1921
8 replies on “Psaltoda claripennis Ashton, 1921 aka Clanger”
Psaltoda genus, but I forget the species. Its NOT a Green Grocer.
Its a green grocer DAH!
Isn’t this the Green Grocer–the world’s loudest cicada?
Im in Brisbane at the moment and had one of these fly into my apartment. Scared the Bejeezus outta me.
What a fine looking beast 🙂
Thanks Hiroyuki!
It’s common name is a Clanger
P.S. The small gate is a fly screen.
IT LOOKS LIKE THE CICADA IS CILMBING ON A SMALL GATE
Psaltoda claripennis