Cicada Mania

It’s cicada time in Australia again, so I’m reposting my list of Australian cicada names. Australians are the best in the world at naming animals.

Australia has the best cicada names:

• Cyclochila australasiae
  • Green Grocer
  • Yellow Monday [picture]
  • Chocolate Soldier
  • 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
• Pauropsalta extrema
  • Typewriter [picture]
• Lembeja paradoxa
  • Bagpipe Cicada [picture]
• Cystosoma saundersii
  • Bladder Cicada
• Aleeta curvicosta
  • Floury Baker
• Psaltoda moerens
  • Redeye
  • Cherryeye
• Anapsaltoda pulchra
  • Golden Emperor [picture]
• Arenopsaltria fullo
  • Sandgrinder [picture]
• Arunta perulata
  • White Drummer
• 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.