{"id":639,"date":"2009-08-24T18:12:55","date_gmt":"2009-08-25T01:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=639"},"modified":"2024-07-31T18:53:29","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T01:53:29","slug":"australian-cicada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/australian-cicada\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you help identify this Australian cicada (Pauropsalta mneme)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can you identify this Australian cicada??? The photo was take by Elizabeth Barnett. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/mysterycicada.jpg\" alt=\"mysterycicada\" title=\"mysterycicada\" width=\"404\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/mysterycicada.jpg 404w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/mysterycicada-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nHi, I wondered whether you can help me identify a cicada we saw at Hall&#8217;s Gap (Midwest Victoria, Australia) in January this year?  It had a limited tolerance for being photographed and took off asap.  From memory its call was a sort of short &#8220;eck! eck!&#8221; rather than the continuous shrill you get from a greengrocer.  There were heaps of them calling but this was the only one we saw.  I&#8217;d estimate it was about half the size of a greengrocer.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I asked <a href=\"\/cicadas\/category\/david-emery\/\">David Emery<\/a>, and he said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>   Looks pretty close to <em>Pauropsalta mneme<\/em> (Alarm clock ticker) with the orange belly and wing infuscations and is in the right place! Heard the first C.celis around Sydney last week, but very dry at present.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After a Google search for Pauropsalta mneme I&#8217;d say David was correct. <\/p>\n<p>The Pauropsalta mneme can be found in south-eastern NSW, Victoria, and a small pocket in South Australia, from late September to early January. (Moulds, M.S.. <u>Australian Cicadas<\/u> Kennsignton: New South Wales Press, 1990, p. 131.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you identify this Australian cicada??? The photo was take by Elizabeth Barnett. Hi, I wondered whether you can help me identify a cicada we saw at Hall&#8217;s Gap (Midwest Victoria, Australia) in January this year? It had a limited tolerance for being photographed and took off asap. From memory its call was a sort [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-pauropsalta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","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=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}