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
• Aleeta curvicosta
  • 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.

Laura Imbruglia sings songs that mention Green Grocers and Yellow Mondays on her album It Makes a Crunchy Noise.