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]
- Tettigarcta crinita
- Hairy Cicada [picture]
- Pauropsalta extrema
- Typewriter [picture]
- Lembeja paradoxa
- Bagpipe Cicada [picture]
- Cystosoma saundersii
- Bladder Cicada [picture]
- Aleeta curvicosta
- Floury Baker [picture]
- Aleeta curvicosta
- Anapsaltoda pulchra
- Golden Emperor [picture]
- Arenopsaltria fullo
- Sandgrinder [picture]
- Arunta perulata
- White Drummer [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 Cicadidae, Australian checklist, 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