{"id":1022,"date":"2009-11-27T21:22:33","date_gmt":"2009-11-28T04:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2025-08-26T07:19:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T14:19:15","slug":"cystosoma-saundersi-bladder-cicada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/cystosoma-saundersi-bladder-cicada\/","title":{"rendered":"Cystosoma saundersii (bladder cicada)"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Emery send us a photo of a Cystosoma saundersii (bladder cicada) from Australia and we added it to the gallery. <\/p>\n

\nJust to complement the Aussie cicadas<\/a>, a small colony of these Cystosoma saundersii have been droning and rattling at dusk around Burwoood in Sydney for the past 2 months. This is their southern-most extension down the east coast of Australia.
\ncheers,
\nDavid.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click the link above or the image below to access large versions of the image. <\/p>\n

\"Bladder<\/p>\n

There is more information about Cystosoma saundersii on Dr. Popple’s website<\/a> and iNaturalist<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Bladder Cicada can be sound in eastern Queensland & NSW, and are most common Nov-Jan. (Moulds, M.S.. Australian Cicadas<\/u> Kennsignton: New South Wales Press, 1990, p. 193.)<\/p>\n

Here’s a photo of a diseased specimen:<\/p>\n

\"Bladder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

David Emery send us a photo of a Cystosoma saundersii (bladder cicada) from Australia and we added it to the gallery. Just to complement the Aussie cicadas, a small colony of these Cystosoma saundersii have been droning and rattling at dusk around Burwoood in Sydney for the past 2 months. This is their southern-most extension […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,135,23],"tags":[134,742],"class_list":["post-1022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-cystosoma","category-david-emery","tag-bladder-cicada","tag-c-saundersii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}