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/li>
- Chocolate Soldier
- Blue Moon
- Masked Devil
- Macrotristria angularis
- Cherrynose or Whiskey Drinker
- Tettigarcta crinita
- Hairy Cicada
- Pauropsalta extrema
- Typewriter [picture]
- Lembeja paradoxa
- Bagpipe Cicada [picture]
- Cystosoma saundersii
- Bladder Cicada
- Abricta 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 the incredible CSIRO Common Names site.
Yes, we have a great emergence of the Masked Devils this year