{"id":341,"date":"2007-10-06T08:59:50","date_gmt":"2007-10-06T15:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/2007\/10\/06\/cicada-time-in-australia-2\/"},"modified":"2024-12-05T14:11:43","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T21:11:43","slug":"cicada-time-in-australia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/cicada-time-in-australia-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cicada Time in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s cicada time in Australia again, so I&#8217;m reposting my list of Australian cicada names. Australians are the best in the world at naming animals. <\/p>\n<p>Australia has the best cicada names:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Cyclochila australasiae<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li> Green Grocer <\/li>\n<li> Yellow Monday<\/li>\n<li>Chocolate Soldier <\/li>\n<li>Blue Moon<\/li>\n<li>Masked Devil<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><em>Macrotristria angularis<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>Cherrynose or Whiskey Drinker<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><em>Tettigarcta crinita<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>Hairy Cicada<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><em>Pauropsalta extrema<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>Typewriter [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ento.csiro.au\/aicn\/name_c\/a_4473.htm\">picture<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><em>Lembeja paradoxa<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>Bagpipe Cicada [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ento.csiro.au\/aicn\/name_c\/a_209.htm\">picture<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><em>Cystosoma saundersii<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>Bladder Cicada<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><em>Abricta curvicosta<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>Floury Baker<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><em>Psaltoda moerens<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>Redeye<\/li>\n<li>Cherryeye<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><em>Anapsaltoda pulchra<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>Golden Emperor [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ento.csiro.au\/aicn\/name_c\/a_1757.htm\">picture<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><em>Arenopsaltria fullo<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>Sandgrinder [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ento.csiro.au\/aicn\/name_c\/a_3604.htm\">picture<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><em>Arunta perulata<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>White Drummer <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><em>Macrotristria godingi<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>Tiger Prince [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ento.csiro.au\/aicn\/name_c\/a_4323.htm\">picture<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><em>Thopha saccata<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>Double Drummer [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ento.csiro.au\/aicn\/name_c\/a_1318.htm\">picture<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><em>Psaltoda plaga<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>Black Prince  [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/science\/scribblygum\/February2001\/default.htm\">picture close to center of page<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><em>Tamasa tristigma<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>Brown Bunyip [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ento.csiro.au\/aicn\/name_c\/a_579.htm\">Brown Bunyip]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There&#8217;s plenty more on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ento.csiro.au\/aicn\/name_c\/a_1.htm\">the incredible CSIRO Common Names site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s cicada time in Australia again, so I&#8217;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 Chocolate Soldier Blue Moon Masked Devil Macrotristria angularis Cherrynose or Whiskey Drinker Tettigarcta crinita Hairy Cicada Pauropsalta extrema [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","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=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}