Australian Cicada Names
Australia has the best cicada names:
- Cyclochila australasiae
- Green Grocer [picture]
- Yellow Monday [picture]
- Chocolate Soldier [picture (at bottom of page)]
- Blue Moon [incredibile picture at bottom of page]
- Masked Devil [picture]
- Macrotristria angularis
- Cherrynose or Whiskey Drinker [picture close to bottom of page]
- Pauropsalta extrema
- Typewriter [picture]
- Lembeja paradoxa
- Bagpipe Cicada [picture]
- Aleeta curvicosta
- Floury Baker [picture]
- Anapsaltoda pulchra
- Golden Emperor [picture]
- Arenopsaltria fullo
- Sandgrinder [picture]
- Macrotristria godingi
- Tiger Prince [picture]
- Thopha saccata
- Double Drummer [picture]
- Psaltoda plaga
- Black Prince [picture close to center of page]
- Tamasa tristigma
- Brown Bunyip [Brown Bunyip]
There’s plenty more on the Australian fauna or the incredible CSIRO Common Names site.
Laura Imbruglia sings songs that mention Green Grocers and Yellow Mondays on her album “It Makes a Crunchy Noise”.
That ‘chocolate soldier’ one is actually a ‘red rocket’ but i think the names for the other ones are very clever. My fav one is the blue moon how beautiful.
Comment by Ben — December 9, 2006 @ 3:35 pm
haha – very cool in a nerdy way :)
Comment by a adam — October 20, 2008 @ 2:39 am