Memoirs of the Queensland Museum – Nature 56

The genus Terepsalta Moulds (Cicadidae: Cicadettinae: Cicadettinini) in Queensland, including the description of a new species

Citation

Ewart, A. 2013. The genus Terepsalta Moulds (Insecta: Cicadidae: Cicadettiniae: Cicadettini) in Queensland, including the description of a new species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum – Nature 56(2): 333-354. Brisbane. ISSN 0079-8835. https://doi.org/10.17082/j.2204-1478.56.2.2013-05

Published online

30 June 2013

Peer reviewed

Yes

DOI

https://doi.org/10.17082/j.2204-1478.56.2.2013-05

Keywords

Cicadas, calling songs, song structures, song analyses, Queensland, taxonomy, semi-arid grasslands

Abstract 

The new genus Terepsalta Moulds, 2012, has recently been described with type species Cicada infans Walker. The original types now representing this species are Cicada infans Walker 1850 and C. abbreviata Walker 1862, the latter a later synonym with C. infans, both held in the British Museum of Natural History, and labelled as collected from Adelaide. No further specimens are known from South Australia. Cicadas collected from semi-arid grasslands of southern-central and southwestern Queensland, however, correspond closely to the types and are here identified as T. infans. A new species, T. leichhardti, is described from Mt Isa, north-western Queensland. The calling songs of both species are documented.