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''Thopha'' is a genus of cicada native to Australia. Five species are recognised, the double drummer (''Thopha saccata ''Thopha saccata'', the double drummer, is the largest Australian species of cicada and reputedly the loudest insect in the world. Documented by the Danish zoologist Johan Christian Fabricius in 1803, it was the first described and named cicada ...''), the northern double drummer ('' T. sessiliba''), the golden drummer ('' T. colorata''), '' T. emmotti'' and '' T. hutchinsoni''. Within ''sessiliba'', two subspecies are recognized, the nominotypical form and ''T. sessiliba clamoris'' Moulds and Hill.Moulds, M.S., and K. B. R. Hill. 2015. Phylogeny for the tribe Thophini (Cicadoidea: Cicadidae) with the description of a new subspecies of ''Thopha sessiliba'' Distant from Western Australia. Rec. Aust. Mus. 67(2): 55-66 Genetic and morphological data show that ''Thopha'' is closely related to the genus ''Arunta''; together they comprise the tribThophini Referen ...
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Thopha Saccata
''Thopha saccata'', the double drummer, is the largest Australian species of cicada and reputedly the loudest insect in the world. Documented by the Danish zoologist Johan Christian Fabricius in 1803, it was the first described and named cicada native to Australia. Its common name comes from the large dark red-brown sac-like pockets that the adult male has on each side of its abdomen—the "double drums"—that are used to amplify the sound it produces. Broad-headed compared with other cicadas, the double drummer is mostly brown with a black pattern across the back of its thorax, and has red-brown and black underparts. The sexes are similar in appearance, though the female lacks the male's tymbals and sac-like covers. Found in sclerophyll forest in Queensland and New South Wales, adult double drummers generally perch high in the branches of large eucalypts. They emerge from the ground where they have spent several years as nymphs from November until March, and live for another fo ...
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Thopha Emmotti
''Thopha'' is a genus of cicada native to Australia. Five species are recognised, the double drummer (''Thopha saccata ''Thopha saccata'', the double drummer, is the largest Australian species of cicada and reputedly the loudest insect in the world. Documented by the Danish zoologist Johan Christian Fabricius in 1803, it was the first described and named cicada ...''), the northern double drummer ('' T. sessiliba''), the golden drummer ('' T. colorata''), '' T. emmotti'' and '' T. hutchinsoni''. Within ''sessiliba'', two subspecies are recognized, the nominotypical form and ''T. sessiliba clamoris'' Moulds and Hill.Moulds, M.S., and K. B. R. Hill. 2015. Phylogeny for the tribe Thophini (Cicadoidea: Cicadidae) with the description of a new subspecies of ''Thopha sessiliba'' Distant from Western Australia. Rec. Aust. Mus. 67(2): 55-66 Genetic and morphological data show that ''Thopha'' is closely related to the genus ''Arunta''; together they comprise the tribThophini Referen ...
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Thopha Utchinsoni
''Thopha'' is a genus of cicada native to Australia. Five species are recognised, the double drummer (''Thopha saccata ''Thopha saccata'', the double drummer, is the largest Australian species of cicada and reputedly the loudest insect in the world. Documented by the Danish zoologist Johan Christian Fabricius in 1803, it was the first described and named cicada ...''), the northern double drummer ('' T. sessiliba''), the golden drummer ('' T. colorata''), '' T. emmotti'' and '' T. hutchinsoni''. Within ''sessiliba'', two subspecies are recognized, the nominotypical form and ''T. sessiliba clamoris'' Moulds and Hill.Moulds, M.S., and K. B. R. Hill. 2015. Phylogeny for the tribe Thophini (Cicadoidea: Cicadidae) with the description of a new subspecies of ''Thopha sessiliba'' Distant from Western Australia. Rec. Aust. Mus. 67(2): 55-66 Genetic and morphological data show that ''Thopha'' is closely related to the genus ''Arunta''; together they comprise the tribThophini Referen ...
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Thopha Hutchinsoni
''Thopha'' is a genus of cicada native to Australia. Five species are recognised, the double drummer (''Thopha saccata ''Thopha saccata'', the double drummer, is the largest Australian species of cicada and reputedly the loudest insect in the world. Documented by the Danish zoologist Johan Christian Fabricius in 1803, it was the first described and named cicada ...''), the northern double drummer ('' T. sessiliba''), the golden drummer ('' T. colorata''), '' T. emmotti'' and '' T. hutchinsoni''. Within ''sessiliba'', two subspecies are recognized, the nominotypical form and ''T. sessiliba clamoris'' Moulds and Hill.Moulds, M.S., and K. B. R. Hill. 2015. Phylogeny for the tribe Thophini (Cicadoidea: Cicadidae) with the description of a new subspecies of ''Thopha sessiliba'' Distant from Western Australia. Rec. Aust. Mus. 67(2): 55-66 Genetic and morphological data show that ''Thopha'' is closely related to the genus ''Arunta''; together they comprise the tribThophini Referen ...
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Thopha Sessiliba
''Thopha sessiliba'', commonly known as the northern double drummer, is an Australian cicada native to Queensland, the Northern Territory and northern Western Australia. Adults perch almost exclusively on ghost gums. William Lucas Distant described the northern double drummer in 1892, but incorrectly gave the type locality as Sydney. Description The northern double drummer is a large species of cicada, the second largest in Australia, just smaller than the largest species, the double drummer. The male and female average 4.56 cm long. The thorax is 1.85 cm in diameter. The eyes are light brown tinged with purple, and the postclypeus dark red-brown. The head is variable in colour, but never black like the double drummer. The thorax is brown with lighter golden-brown markings. The mesonotum is brown tinged with purple. The underside of the thorax is red-brown and covered in fine silvery velvety hairs. The abdomen is dark brown, with the first and second segments above ...
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Thopha Colorata
''Thopha colorata'', commonly known as the golden drummer, is an Australian cicada native to Central Australia. Adult cicadas alight exclusively on river red gums (''Eucalyptus camaldulensis ''Eucalyptus camaldulensis'', commonly known as the river red gum, is a tree that is endemic to Australia. It has smooth white or cream-coloured bark, lance-shaped or curved adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven or nine, white flowers an ...''). The nymph is long and is a dull brown colour. See also * List of cicadas of Australia References Thophini Hemiptera of Australia Insects described in 1907 Taxa named by William Lucas Distant {{Cicadidae-stub ...
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Insect
Insects (from Latin ') are pancrustacean hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta. They are the largest group within the arthropod phylum. Insects have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body ( head, thorax and abdomen), three pairs of jointed legs, compound eyes and one pair of antennae. Their blood is not totally contained in vessels; some circulates in an open cavity known as the haemocoel. Insects are the most diverse group of animals; they include more than a million described species and represent more than half of all known living organisms. The total number of extant species is estimated at between six and ten million; In: potentially over 90% of the animal life forms on Earth are insects. Insects may be found in nearly all environments, although only a small number of species reside in the oceans, which are dominated by another arthropod group, crustaceans, which recent research has indicated insects are nested within. Nearly all insects hatch from eggs. ...
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Insects Of Australia
Insects (from Latin ') are pancrustacean hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta. They are the largest group within the arthropod phylum. Insects have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body ( head, thorax and abdomen), three pairs of jointed legs, compound eyes and one pair of antennae. Their blood is not totally contained in vessels; some circulates in an open cavity known as the haemocoel. Insects are the most diverse group of animals; they include more than a million described species and represent more than half of all known living organisms. The total number of extant species is estimated at between six and ten million; In: potentially over 90% of the animal life forms on Earth are insects. Insects may be found in nearly all environments, although only a small number of species reside in the oceans, which are dominated by another arthropod group, crustaceans, which recent research has indicated insects are nested within. Nearly all insects hatch from eg ...
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Cicadinae
The Cicadinae are a subfamily of cicadas, containing the translucent cicadas. They are robust cicadas and many have gaudy colors, but they generally lack the butterfly-like opaque wing markings found in many species of the related Tibiceninae. Systematics This large subfamily is here divided into tribes. Other schemes exist, which usually have a coarser subdivision. Some, however, merge the Tibiceninae here whole or partly. The genera given below were substantially revised 2010 through 2018 due to additional morphological and molecular phylogenetic analysis. The following tribes belong to the subfamily Cicadinae: # Arenopsaltriini Moulds, 2018 # Burbungini Moulds, 2005 # Cicadatrini Distant, 1905 # Cicadini Latreille, 1802 # Cicadmalleuini Boulard & Puissant, 2013 # Cosmopsaltriini Kato, 1932 # Cryptotympanini Handlirsch, 1925 # Cyclochilini Distant, 1904 # Distantadini Orian, 1963 # Dundubiini Atkinson, 1886 # Durangonini Moulds & Marshall, 2018 # Fidicinini Distant ...
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Thophini
Thophini is a tribe of cicadas in the family Cicadidae, found in Australia. There are at least two genera and about nine described species in Thophini. Genera These two genera belong to the tribe Thophini: * ''Arunta'' Distant, 1904 * ''Thopha ''Thopha'' is a genus of cicada The cicadas () are a superfamily, the Cicadoidea, of insects in the order Hemiptera (true bugs). They are in the suborder Auchenorrhyncha, along with smaller jumping bugs such as leafhoppers and froghoppers ...'' Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843 References Further reading * * * * * * * * * * * Cicadinae Hemiptera tribes {{Cicadidae-stub ...
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Cicadidae Genera
Cicadidae, the true cicadas, is the largest family of cicadas, with more than 3,200 species worldwide. The oldest known definitive fossils are from the Paleocene, a nymph from the Cretaceous Burmese amber has been attributed to the family, but could also belong to the Tettigarctidae. Description Cicadas are large insects characterized by their membranous wings, triangular-formation of three ocelli on the top of their heads, and their short, bristle-like antennae. Life cycle Cicadas are generally separated into two categories based on their adult emergence pattern. Annual cicadas remain underground as nymphs for two or more years and the population is not locally synchronized in its development, so that some adults mature each year or in most years. Periodical cicadas also have multiple-year life cycles but emerge in synchrony or near synchrony in any one location and are absent as adults in the intervening years. The most well-known periodical cicadas, genus ''Magicicada'', ...
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Cicada
The cicadas () are a superfamily, the Cicadoidea, of insects in the order Hemiptera (true bugs). They are in the suborder Auchenorrhyncha, along with smaller jumping bugs such as leafhoppers and froghoppers. The superfamily is divided into two families, the Tettigarctidae, with two species in Australia, and the Cicadidae, with more than 3,000 species described from around the world; many species remain undescribed. Cicadas have prominent eyes set wide apart, short antennae, and membranous front wings. They have an exceptionally loud song, produced in most species by the rapid buckling and unbuckling of drumlike tymbals. The earliest known fossil Cicadomorpha appeared in the Upper Permian period; extant species occur all around the world in temperate to tropical climates. They typically live in trees, feeding on watery sap from xylem tissue, and laying their eggs in a slit in the bark. Most cicadas are cryptic. The vast majority of species are active during the day as adults, ...
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